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Queen of Cupsfor Capricorn ยท Money and Wealth

Queen of Cups tarot card

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On the card

The queen represents the highest form of feminine energy, love and nurturing and protectiveness. Highly tied to the emotions and water-- she's creative and intuitive and above all loving. She's also dreamy and tied to a more psychic power.

Upright
Emotional IntelligenceCompassionNurturingIntuition

With all royal cards, the queen can be an actual person in your life who represents the highest forms of love and nurturing (romantically maybe it's a truly healthy attachment with whom you want to start a life/build a family; perhaps a bond to your own mother is strong or your mom will be a support in your next life phase). The queen can also be an embodiment of your own strong emotions (maybe you are having a baby, or parenting in some way).

Reversed

The reversed queen of cups means someone is using their control of your emotions to trick you or feed their own ego. Put a little space between you and the person in your life who uses your love of them to feel good about themselves.

Its place in the deck.

Court cardQueen
One of the 16 court cards: a Page, Knight, Queen and King in each suit. A court card often stands for a person in your life, or a side of yourself you are showing right now.
SuitCups ยท Water
Cups are the suit of Water: feeling and attachment. A Cups card is always, underneath, about what you feel and who you are attached to.
RankInward mastery
The Queen is inward mastery: holds the element internally, does not need to prove it.

Where it shows up.

In the stars
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Feelings, relationships, and intuition. In tarot: Cups.
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Queen of Cups for Capricorn in Money and Wealth

The Architect

Cups are the water suit, so the Queen of Cups sits in Cancer. Cancer sits directly opposite Capricorn, so this card describes the half of the situation Capricorn habitually hands to someone else. What it wants is this: say the feeling to the person it is about. Handing that to another person is exactly the habit. Upright, this is the element held internally, by someone with nothing left to prove about it.

When reading about money through a Capricorn lens, the Queen of Cups says that you feel like money is security against a specific catastrophe you cannot quite name, something you accumulate in silence, and never quite enough no matter what you earn. This has either built genuine financial stability and the power that comes with it or created a scarcity mindset that no paycheck can quiet. You have not looked at your full financial picture all at once, and the not-looking costs more than the looking would. The Capricorn blind spot in it is being useless, being a burden, being the person who could not hold it together.

In practice that can look like a gift that complicates things. Whatever form it takes, it is held by someone who has been through it already.

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