Astrological equivalents: Neptune in the Seventh House, Mercury in Cancer

Venus as a symbol of joy and gratitude.

The second decade of Cancer from 2 to 11 July.

Occult Meaning – Abundance

The Three of Cups adorns your spread with it’s beautiful happy painting.

Three of Cups is a card of fulfillment of desires in both business and in personal life, it denotes the most joyful development of the situation. Three of Cups heralds the beginning of a pleasant and carefree period of life, a bright streak. This is the success of the planned business, the restoration of good relations as if something important and beautiful has entered our lives. We have received a gift (from a person or from our fate herself) that fills us with joy, happiness and gratitude. Three of cups brings optimism and a sense of the fullness of being.

The traditional meaning of Three of Cups is a holiday, a friendly party, intoxicating you with the fullness of life and a celebration of the soul.

It heralds a time of joys and passions, you are inspired and your heart beats happily. You spend a great time, receive the pleasure from love and the company of a loved one, feeling the enjoyment of togetherness. This is a very accurate and powerful card! It always brings joys that help restore vitality, making you feel carefree and happy.

If it was a problem, a crisis, the Three of Cups symbolizes the ability to find a good way out of a difficult situation and the relief that fate brings – a happy decision, perhaps coming to a friendly compromise, receiving support from third parties.

The Way You Feel

You feel Intense cheerfulness, optimistic perception of reality, excellent mood, fluttering like a feather. Literally, nothing loads or crushes you. Happiness as a state of mind, holiday of the heart, the joy of life, the satisfaction of gratitude to fate. The Three of Cups in particular makes you feel great after previous hardships, anxieties and stresses; brings healing and peace to the soul.

You enter period of great creative inspiration, inner growth and fullness.

Pleasant and harmonious emotional state, not burdened by thoughts about the consequences. A fun and selfless stay “in your own kingdom”, “catching a buzz.”

Sociability.

On a Deeper Level

Three of Cups depicts the cosmic dance of Shiva, calling from non-existence numerous diverse worlds. This is a passionate act that deprives the dyad of its stable but immovable balance. The created universe becomes a source of abundance, where the needs of all beings are met according to their nature.

At a deep level, the Three of Cups speaks of fidelity to one’s nature, that one who saves his heart from false desires will receive what he really needs for happiness (and will be able to share it with others in accordance with with the principle of energy circulation).

The second decade of Cancer, ruled by Mercury, carries the idea of understanding the processes of life-creation and the conscious inclusion of feelings in these processes: switching from the inner world to the outer and, vice versa, from external impressions to the richness of one’s soul. It symbolizes abundance and prosperity.

Adhere to the status quo so the holiday of the soul does not turn into a violent bacchanalia. The three of cups is very dynamic; your emotions are not constrained, and they feed one another, forming an astral whirlwind.

Three is a number associated with the ideal, with the desire to embody the desired. It’s an indication of a good intuition.

Light and shadow (advice and caution)

Advice: thank fate, accept what others offer and share with them your happiness.

Warning – this is not the time to look for sensual pleasures and entertainment, to run to parties and dates. Overindulging in feelings brings emotional instability, rapid change of desires and thoughts, and, as a result, you may feel nervous and dissatisfied. Remember that excessive passion creates a feeling being out of place.

Career

Three of cups celebrates a successful completion of the project. Enterprise will be successful. All interested parties will be satisfied.

Accomplishments. Positive resolution of work-related issues.

The traditional meaning of the Three of Cups is a good luck and an effortless victory in an undertaking. This is a “small” success only in comparison with the triumphs of the Nine and Ten. It is a real holiday for a student who just passed an exam.

Three of Cups also promises a promotion. Successful continuation of cooperation and partnerships. Exchange of experience in a great team.

The Three of Cups tells that the person really likes the work. It’s also nice that the job is well paid.

Dance is depicted on the Three of Cups for a reason. It has a special relation to creative, dynamic, emotional activities.

Finance and house

You will profit from a joint venture, or joint investment. Abundance and prosperity is awaiting for you. Fulfilment of desires. A compromise will resolve all concerns.

Love ánd Relationship

Three of Cups indicates the success and building relationships of many or at least a few people who make up a family, group, team. Three of cups works great in pairs too.

One of its traditional meanings is wedding bells. Engagement, marriage, birth of a child. In practice, it often means a small celebration of love – a romantic weekend or a great date.

The Three of Cups is an exceptionally positive card that also called a “festival of love.” Three of Cups is in charge of lively and strong relationships, reciprocity, enchantment with each other, bliss, even overcrowding. The ability to fully surrender to harmonious relationships (it’s like dancing together or singing together). This card may mean a close karmic connection between two people.

There is a willingness to share love and pleasure with a partner with complete openness.

Emotional union, open expression of feelings, overflowing exchange of love, rare and valuable sensations and perceptions. The spiritual and physical harmony.

Romantic relationship evolves and complete trust creates a truly sacred space of merging. The Three of Cups symbolizes the vital treasures inherent in extraordinary love. Such relationships are a rare gift and should be cared for with respect and gratitude.

Internal forces have reached such a level that they are physically expressed with delight. Joy, passion and fullness of life, deep gratitude, the highest mutual trust. Abundance of sensual pleasures, openness in them, ecstatic merging with a partner. Conception as an expression of happiness to love and be loved.

Three of Cups expands the circle of connections and interests.

Health

Good health.

Reversed Three of Cups

The reversed Three of Cups is unfavorable for relationships – it can cause a loss of happiness, deceived hopes, the fading of feelings and a love triangle. Communications are going through hard times.

Depending on a surrounding cards, Three of Cups could retain its favorable meaning, indicating only that at the moment something is preventing success and good relations, but this will pass with time.

Three of Cups could indicate lust and excessive love for sensual pleasures. A tendency to exaggerate, a waste of one’s vitality. Lack of prestige. Misunderstanding of the situation.

Combination with other cards

With the Hierophant – concern for the common good, collectivism

With the Hermit – breaking ties with the team, being alone

With Temperance – unity of forces, joint work, synergy in the team

With the Four of Wands – inspiration, triumph

With the Nine of Wands – wariness, distrust of people (likely unreasonable)

With the Three of Swords – isolation from people, loneliness, cut off from the joys of life

With the Six of Swords – sadness, depression, mourning

With the Three of Pentacles – successful teamwork, synergy in the team

With Six of Pentacles – financial assistance will be provided in good faith and with warm feelings.