Page of Cups
The Page of Cups is the card of a young page who finds a fish looking up out of his cup. Readers traditionally take it as a creative opening, an intuitive message and curiosity. In the Golden Dawn scheme the court cards belong to Water.
- Suit
- Cups (Minor Arcana)
- Golden Dawn
- Water (court card)
- Upright
- a creative opening, an intuitive message, curiosity
- Reversed
- emotional immaturity, creative block
Upright
A surprise from the imagination is how readers describe this page. The card is read as curiosity, an intuitive message, a creative idea arriving out of nowhere, or news that touches the heart. Waite calls the page a studious youth and speaks of pictures of the mind taking form. Readers often take it as encouragement to follow an odd idea a little further.
Reversed
Creative block is one reading of the reversed page. Readers also see emotional immaturity: moodiness, oversensitivity, or reacting to feelings before understanding them. It can describe someone who daydreams about a project without ever starting it, or who takes small slights to heart.
In love and at work
Sweet messages, a shy admirer or a first date full of nerves belong to the romantic side of this card. In working life, readers apply it to a new creative role, an apprenticeship, or an idea worth sketching out, even when it seems small.
In the picture
A young page stands on the shore with the sea behind him, holding a cup in one hand. A small fish pokes its head out of the cup and he regards it with calm interest. He wears a tunic printed with flowers and a soft hat with a long scarf trailing from it.
In a Caelumia profile
When Page of Cups comes up upright in a Caelumia reading, it counts toward these themes for that day, alongside the rest of the profile: Imagination, Intuition, Sensitivity.
Sources
- A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910). Waite's own guide to the deck he designed with Pamela Colman Smith, with each card's divinatory meanings.
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Book T: The Tarot (1890s, published by Israel Regardie in The Golden Dawn (1937 to 1940)). The source of the planetary, zodiac and elemental attributions of the cards.
Updated September 28, 2026.
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