Pamela Colman Smith · RWS deck
The Minor Arcana
Two of Cups
Chokmah in Briah
- Suit
- cups
- Rank
- Two
- World
- Briah
- Station
- Chokmah
- Verb
- I create
Chokmah, the flash before form
Chokmah is the raw impulse before anything has a shape: something wanted of you, or from you, before there is any pattern to it. Each Two is the same flash, met by a different world.
Upright
Flowing. A self reaching toward a counterpart: the spark of attraction or collaboration before either person knows what they will make. In the world of creation the first impulse is relational. Something wants to be made between two people, and neither of them can yet say what.
Misdirected. Taking the first spark for the whole bond.
Reversed
Blocked. No reaching toward another, closed to the spark.
Flooded. Reaching toward everyone, attachment before knowing.
The image
A man and a woman, each wearing a wreath, face each other and hold out their cups. Above them a winged lion's head rises from a staff wound with two serpents. Behind them, a house on a hill. The picture is a close fit: two selves, and nothing made yet.
Learn how to read Two of Cups in a spread
This page shows you what Two of Cups means. Knowing how to read it — how it shifts next to the other cards, what the reversal is really telling you, and how to turn a spread into a clear answer — is what the RWS Decoded course and book teach, card by card.
