Cups · Water
Ten of Cupsfor Leo · Self and Identity
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A true harmonous card; the deeper sense of fulfillment that comes from emotional wellbeing. Your family is aligned, your relationships are balanced, and your journey has led to prosperity.
Things are good-- the ups and downs of life are present but you can handle them with ease and love and the help of the family you've built for yourself. Romantically your focus should be finding and loving people who feel nurturing and secure. Nest, create memories, find joy in the moment. If there's someone important in your life (a parent, sibling, friend) that you feel distanced from, a chance for reconciliation might be near.
There's dysfunction blocking you from true emotional fulfillment. Perhaps a conflict with a parent or partner (someone that was supposed to make you feel at home) that seems unresolvable or emotionally painful. The reversed ten of cups lets us know that an opportunity to reconcile is coming up, but make sure to make a plan to care for yourself emotionally before jumping in head first on repairing
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Ten of Cups for Leo in Self and Identity
The Creator
Cups are the water suit, so the Ten of Cups sits in Cancer. Cancer sits directly beside Leo, the one relationship a sign cannot see clearly because it is too close to get any distance on. What it asks for is this: say the feeling to the person it is about. The difficulty is noticing it is being asked at all. Upright, it is complete, which is not automatically the same as good.
When reading about yourself through a Leo lens, the Ten of Cups says that you feel like your image is the thing you are always refining, something that could always be more impressive (or more real), and the constant distance between who you are and who you appear. This has either built genuine self-awareness through the practice of refinement, or left you exhausted from maintaining two different people. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Leo blind spot in it is being ordinary, being forgotten, being the one no one thought to invite, being seen doing something mediocre.
In practice that can look like a feeling arriving late. Whatever form it takes, it is completing, possibly past the point it was useful.
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