In a word (upright)
Your heart fills with love and joy. You're blessed with the start of new love and heart-to-heart encounters. Value your honest feelings, and happy events will come one after another.
When it appears reversed
You can't express your feelings honestly, and your heart feels a bit dry. If you've been holding emotions in too long, talk to someone you trust. Just letting feelings out starts to refresh your heart.
A starting point through the image
In the older guidebook's illustration, The image depicts an overflowing cup with a bird descending toward it.
Use Acceptance · Joy · Beginnings as a clue when considering something on your mind. A figure in the image need not represent someone of a particular age or gender; it can also symbolize a role held by you or someone around you.
Upright meaning
Receive something that gently moves your heart. Alongside usefulness, notice why it pleased you. Keep one thing that refreshed today's mood, such as music or a short note, to learn the forms of your own joy.
This position explores how to create an opening for something not yet defined. Keeping the start small enough to reconsider afterward may also help you discover what interests you.
Reversed meaning
This is a time when your feelings do not catch up with an invitation that should be a happy one. Before putting on a composed face, check what kind of time you want right now. You can also choose to take in less and spend your time reading just one letter.
Even for an apparently welcome invitation, choose the length you can receive now and say how long you want before replying.
Love and relating to your partner
Room to receive affection may emerge. Rather than immediately dismissing praise, reply with what pleased you to open an exchange of feelings.
Consider the matter on your mind through Time together and the space each person wants. List separately what the person has actually said and the wishes you have not yet checked; this can help you choose a starting point for the next conversation.
In work and learning
This card finds an idea's strengths through people's responses. Record words that pleased them and put whose mood the work addresses at the proposal's beginning.
For a current task, the perspective is to clarify What you hope for at work and how you ask for cooperation. Focus on one step you are responsible for and first agree who needs to decide what.
When this card appears in a three-card spread
In the position for support and conditions to clarify, This position invites you to count the tasks already underway before beginning something new. Distinguish one addition from what you will not increase for now, leaving space to experiment.
In the position for a next step you choose yourself, For the idea you move forward next, choose a first attempt rather than promise completion. After experiencing it directly, set a day to decide what follows.
For a reversed card, use its reversed meaning and action above, then revisit the conditions to check in the same position. Rather than deciding an outcome from the card's name, consider the adjacent cards and the question selected beforehand together.
One thing to take into daily life
Write one event that softened your heart today and add its sounds or scenery to retain the shape of that joy.