over all meaning of the suits

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 23 Apr 2005, and now archived in the Forum Library.

midnightmoon	23 Apr 2005
I wa wondering if someone would please let me know the meanings for the suits. i just finished a reading and here was alot of the suit of cups. midnightmoon

waya	23 Apr 2005
Cups I think usually has to do with emotions, issues of the heart. I usually see swords as challenges, wands as work or spiritual issues, and pentacles as money/finances.

HudsonGray	24 Apr 2005
Paring it down to the bare bones: Cups--emotions & feelings, matters of the heart & soul. Wands--living life, your actions and day to day matters. Swords--words & the actions that happen directly because of them. A lot of Swords are what's happening in the immediate stress filled lives we run. Pentacles--money, possessions, and the things we do to acquire them (jobs, skills, planning).

Shangri-La	02 May 2005
I usually think of them as mind (Swords), heart/emotions (Cups), body/material matters (Pentacles) and spirit/ambition (Wands). I know there's a bit more to it than that, but this is just how the suits generally come across in my own readings. Just my 2 cents' worth. :)

tarotbear	02 May 2005
I see: Cups - Emotions, love Swords - Action, strategy Pentacles - Manifestion, material things Wands - Ideas, 'what you do' {many people list Wands as 'work', and I think that is too limiting}

gilded goat	03 May 2005
Cups=family-friends-new friends-feelings wands=work hard-play hard swords=retribution for the above wands pentacles=what makes your world go round

temperlyne	03 May 2005
cups: emotions, feelings, soul, spiritual wands: adrenaline, energy, activity, action coins: matter, manifestation, social status swords: thought, reason, ideas

Eco74	03 May 2005
A lot of repetitions here but; Cups - The emotional part of life. Relationships, feelings, even instincts to some degree. What goes on inside of us rather than more practical aspects of life. Wands - Actions, doing something, acting and reacting. Being on the move and keeping things moving. Instincts on deeper levels, the "Id" coming out to have a say. Fast reactions and energy. Coins - The physical world. The body, the world around us. Physical labour and a clear earth-connection. Reep what you sow, what you begin in the physical realm will grow and evolve. Slow and steady. Swords - The intellect. Thoughts, plans, strategies. Cutting through the fog to get to the heart of the matter. Analyses, contemplation, meditation. Logical responses to things that take place and finding patterns in how things work. Aquiring knowledge and experience through processing information.

Bosorka	04 May 2005
I think it depends quite at what suit do you connect with what element. To me it is: cups = water = I feel; I got to the heart of matter slowly like water under riverside coins = earth = I have; everything I can hold on wands = fire = I will; let there be (the wand of a magician); I got to the heart of matter fast like fire swords = wind = I know; there's logical reason for everything I know that it is but very simplified, I hold to that when I started with tarot, but till now I sometimes go back to it.

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