Ace of Cups

Upright

A feeling offered, fresh and undefended. The beginning of love, connection, or an intuitive opening.

Reversed

Feeling withheld — from someone else, or from yourself.

Its element

Water — feeling, attachment, grief, the things that move you whether or not you approve. Water finds the low ground every time.

An Ace has no decan. It is the whole element, undivided and not yet spent on anything.

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