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Queen of Cupsfor Scorpio · Self and Identity

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 · 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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WaterElement
Feelings, relationships, and intuition. In tarot: Cups.
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Queen of Cups for Scorpio in Self and Identity

The Transformer

Cups are the water suit, so the Queen of Cups sits in Scorpio. That makes this Scorpio's own card, so nothing in it is being read from the outside, and the flattering interpretation is the one to distrust. What it asks for is the thing Scorpio already believes it is good at: say the feeling to the person it is about. Upright, this is the element held internally, by someone with nothing left to prove about it.

When reading about yourself through a Scorpio lens, the Queen of Cups says that you feel like your own motives are worth interrogating endlessly, a mystery even to you (or especially to you), and something you will judge harshly before anyone else gets the chance. This has either led to you becoming very honest about what you actually want, or to you believing you do not deserve it. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Scorpio blind spot in it is the feeling of being fooled, or of being seen as naive, or of depending on someone who will leave.

In practice that can look like liking yourself unexpectedly. Whatever form it takes, it is held by someone who has been through it already.

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