In divination
The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing.
Reversed: Expedition, dispatch, achievement, end. It signifies also the side of excess in physical enjoyment, and the pleasures of the senses.
The library's note
Three maidens stand in a garden, cups lifted as if toasting one another, the suit's private pairing in the Two now grown into company. Waite reads it as arrival rather than beginning, "the conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment," fulfilment and solace named outright among its meanings. Where wands mark this same numeral with settled trade, cups mark it with celebration, the suit's water finding, this early in its run, a register of uncomplicated joy it will not keep for long.