Waite–Smith, Cups
Queen of Cups
What you can see
A seated queen studies an elaborate covered cup beside the water. Small sculpted figures decorate the throne.
What Waite says
Waite insists that her visionary quality includes action: her activity sustains her dream. He connects the card with devoted intelligence and service, while acknowledging divergent reversed accounts.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 200 ↗In the Thoth deck
Waite’s courts are King, Queen, Knight and Page. Thoth has Knight, Queen, Prince and Princess, so a rank does not carry straight across. See both ways to match them.
Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.