Ten of Cups

Upright

belonging · family · peace

Emotional completion shared with others — the version of happiness that includes people.

Reversed

strained home · ideal vs real · distance

A picture of harmony maintained at cost, or a home that needs repair rather than performance.

Why this astrology

The pips two through ten map onto the thirty-six decans, ten degrees of the zodiac each, so Ten of Cups is mars in pisces · third decan — a planet working through a particular third of a sign. Aces are the root of their element and the courts carry it as temperament.