Five cards on one relationship - the one you are in, the one that has not started, or the one that is ending. The spread asks five questions in order: what you are bringing, where the other person stands, what exists between you, what is obstructing it, and the direction of travel if nothing changes. Cups is the anchor suit here because A. E. Waite gives that suit love, friendship and happiness, so a spread full of Cups is answering your question in its own language. Every meaning shown carries the book it comes from, and the draw is a fresh random shuffle each time - which the page says on the reading itself rather than in the small print.
The question is for you, not for the shuffle - this draw is random, so what you type does not change the cards. If you want a reading fixed to your details, use the personalised report.
Cups is the anchor suit. Waite gives that suit love, friendship and happiness, so a love reading with several Cups in it is speaking directly to the question rather than around it.
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A love tarot reading here is five cards laid in a fixed order, and each position is a question asked before its card is turned. The five are: you, the other person, the bond, what is in the way, and where it is heading. The layout is this app's own arrangement rather than a classical one, and it says so on the reading; what is sourced is the frame it sits in, since Waite assigns each suit a department of life in Part III of his 1911 handbook and gives Cups love, friendship and happiness.
Read the position before the card. The same card means one thing under 'the bond' and something quite different under 'what is in the way' - fitting cards to positions afterwards is the most common way to misread a spread.
Notice how many Cups fell. Several means the matter really is about feeling. None at all, in a reading anchored in that suit, is traditionally read as the answer lying somewhere other than where the question pointed - often in the Pentacles, which in a love reading means money, household and who does the work.
It will not give you a date. The rule everybody repeats - Wands means days, Cups weeks, Swords months, Pentacles years - is in none of the three handbooks this deck cites: not in A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), not in S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1888), and not in Papus (1889). It is a twentieth-century convention that circulates without an author, so no card here prints a date. The fifth position gives a direction of travel if nothing changes, which is a tendency and not a schedule.
It will not read the Queen of Swords as widowhood. Waite's divinatory meaning for that card leads with widowhood and female sadness, and Mathers gives the same. Telling somebody a card predicts a death is a harm rather than a reading, so this app refuses that line and records the refusal. The card keeps its other attested sense - perception, plain speech, judgement formed by experience - and both witnesses' reversed meanings, which are about malice rather than bereavement.
No, and no honest tarot page can. The second position describes the other person as far as a card can, but a card is not evidence about somebody who is not present. Read it as a description of the situation you are in, not as testimony about them.
This one is random. The deck is shuffled fresh every time you press the button, so drawing again gives different cards - the page says so above the spread. If you want a reading that stays the same when you come back, the personalised tarot report is seeded on your own details instead.
From A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), cross-read against S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1888) and Papus (1889). All three are public domain. The prose is ours; the rules are theirs, and each card carries a source chip you can tap.
Yes. The five positions are written to cover all three cases - a relationship you are in, one that has not begun, and one that is finishing. In an unstarted one, the third position describes what already exists between the two of you and the fourth names what is actually in the way; in one that is ending, the fifth position reads as the direction of travel if nothing changes, not as a verdict on whether it should.
For educational purposes. Astrological interpretations are traditional and not a substitute for professional advice.