Cups · Water
Two of Cupsfor Cancer
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Cups represent emotions, love, and feelings. The two of cups is about a connection that already feels steady, coming into a new age of emotional connection and balance.
The feelings are mutual, you are on the same page and you are making prolonged eye contact. In love and romance this is a steamy card about connecting with another person on a deep level, but it can be a partnership outside of the romantic
Something is off balance in a key relationship. Some ruptures can be healed, but pay attention as this card is a sign that a breakup or ending might be what's needed in the long term.
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Two of Cups for Cancer
The Nurturer
Cancer is a Water cardinal sign ruled by Moon, whose natural subject is home, roots, family, the private interior. Cups are the water suit, so the Two of Cups sits in Cancer. That makes this Cancer'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 Cancer already believes it is good at: say the feeling to the person it is about. Cancer is cardinal: it starts things, and this is a card about starting, so the danger is starting again instead of continuing. Water meeting its own element is amplification, which raises the sign's strengths and its usual failure by the same amount. Upright, the second thing has actually arrived and the negotiation between them is live.
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