- Arcana
- Minor · three of cups
- Correspondence
- Mercury in Cancer · second decan
- Element
- Water
- Sign
- Cancer
- Planet
- Mercury
Three of Cups
Mercury in Cancer · second decan
Upright
friendship · shared joy · chorus
Good company and something to toast. Joy multiplies by being witnessed.
Reversed
gossip · exclusion · overindulgence
The circle turned inward against someone, or celebration used as an anaesthetic.
Why this astrology
The pips two through ten map onto the thirty-six decans, ten degrees of the zodiac each, so Three of Cups is mercury in cancer · second 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.