I have been lucky enough to have had two Two of Cups moments this week. I am not talking about full-on romantic attraction, far from it. Instead they were the experience of making a connection with people who share an interest. What made them Two of Cups meetings was that, in both cases, we realised we were ‘on the same page’ and ‘coming from the same place’.

What were these incredible meetings, I hear you ask? Well, nothing much really. At the beginning of the week I took our trainee Guide Dog pup out for a free-run and met another dog-walker who was happy to let our boy run with her crazy Boxer. We chatted and it was lovely to discover we agreed on lots of things from irresponsible dog owners, other people and housework. We parted, each with one knackered dog, feeling, well, comfortable. The second meeting with another dog-lady earlier today was just as comforting – and I feel as though I have made two new friends.

In the normal run of things, these two short encounters wouldn’t have made much impression. However, I’d been thinking about the Two of Cups recently and it occurred to me that, at my age, there wouldn’t be many occasions when the card would be relevant to my personal circumstances. Not likely to engage in passionate love affairs or anything like that. As I walked home with my tired dog this morning, I realised that my two new fledgling friendships are perfect representations of the Two of Cups.

While the usual depictions of the Two of Cups point at a romantic attraction, the energy of the card is not so full-on as we sometimes think. The Two of Cups is a tentative beginning – the seed of a deep love, a lasting friendship or perhaps just the chance to share a common interest. Nothing about it is set in stone – it is ‘potential‘; a might more definite than the delightful, amorphous Ace of Cups, but still potential rather than actual.

I’m going to focus on having more Two of Cups moments. Whether it be having a joke with the elderly man in the supermarket checkout queue, or that silly dance we do when trying to pass someone on a narrow pavement, or when dealing with unseen people on my Freegle groups. I am going to treat all my encounters with ‘strangers’ as potential Two of Cupsies.

In my efforts not to include an overly romantic Two of Cups, I happened upon this lovely pip card (above) from an old deck, the Belgian Tarot. You can read more about this deck at Tarot History.