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Three of Cupsfor Taurus ยท Love and Relationships

Three of Cups tarot card

"Call the friend. Yes, that one."

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On the card

If two is company, three is a party! The card depicts a celebration and friends together cheersing. A card about the group chat that hypes you up! Staying playful as an adult can help you connect with your inner child-- and the three of cups is all about that!

Upright
CelebrationFriendshipCommunityJoy

A fun and lighthearted moment-- an inside joke that makes you laugh or the feeling seeing an old friend. A card about friendship and community more than a romantic connection. Plan a party, or organize an event to play!

Reversed

The social hangover is real-- you are worn out and feeling drained. Things that normal make you feel light are stressing you out-- perhaps a friend and you are growing apart and so your hangs fill up your cup less. Pay attention and be direct with yourself. Set aside quiet time to listen to yourself.

Its place in the deck.

Minor ArcanaNumber card
One of the 56 Minor Arcana. They are about what is happening in ordinary life right now. Each belongs to one of four suits, numbered Ace to Ten, plus four court cards.
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.
NumberThree
The numbers tell a story inside each suit, from a seed at the Ace to the full expression at Ten. Three is first expression outward: it becomes visible to other people and stops being private.

Where it shows up.

In the stars
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WaterElement
Feelings, relationships, and intuition. In tarot: Cups.
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Three of Cups for Taurus in Love and Relationships

The Builder

Cups are the water suit, so the Three of Cups sits in Cancer. Cancer sextiles Taurus, which is help that has to be taken up rather than help that arrives. What it asks for is this: say the feeling to the person it is about. Taurus is perfectly capable of that, which is exactly why not doing it needs a better excuse. Upright, it has become visible to other people, which is the part that makes it real.

When reading about relationships through a Taurus lens, the Three of Cups says that you feel like your partner is a life you tend carefully, a person whose patterns you have memorized, and someone who should want the same future you do. This has either meant staying in something comfortable that stopped being kind, or building something so solid with someone that both of you know what the next ten years will hold. The thing you're not saying out loud is the thing that matters most. The Taurus blind spot in it is the feeling that the ground is shifting under something they thought was permanent.

In practice that can look like new love, or a conversation that changes the temperature. Whatever form it takes, it is about to become visible to other people.

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