TWO OF CUPS
Recognition -- Greeting your heart's desire. Recognition. Your other half. A perfect pairing. Heart happiness. Pleasure. Reflection. Delight. Love. Coming home. Reunion. Spiritual marriage. Twin flames. Soul mates.
SHADOW: The dark side of this card emerges when you love something or someone who doesn't love you back. Rejection hurts like physical pain; they share the same centers in the brain. Treat rejection like a short-term flu or illness that you will heal from. The shadow of this card is evoked when there is an attempt to re-create past feelings that have long since departed for one or both parties. Not all feelings, passions, and loves will or can last, but all can be valued and appreciated for the fact they existed at all.
The Two of Cups is meeting a person, thing, or energy mirroring your soul-the sweet recognition of oneself in another. This is the pure essence of attraction toward the things we love. The horses convey intimacy, tenderness, and reverence in the wild nature of the Dark Wood.
The Two of Cups reflects finding one's other half, meeting your desire with a full heart. The two horses share an intimate bond. It doesn't matter how much time passes for old friends. Time vanishes. The wild magic of reunification.
Horses use scent to identify one another. Horses in tarot decks are traditionally used as an expression of the energy of a situation. The horses in this card have stopped in their tracks. Time stands still. They inhale, breathe, and consider each other.
The human urge to be seen is deeply seeded within us. The Two of Cups reflects a moment of reunion. These circumstances may occur with humans, animals, the perfect job, finding your calling, or even a mystical experience. We thirst for understanding and recognition. To be "seen" is a desire shared by all things.