Ace of Cups and Death tarot card combinations

Cards combination description

Low arcan Ace of Cups and high arcan Death combination - Could be flash-in-the-pan, over before it’s begun (similarly, Ten of Swords brings a disappointing ending)

Card 1 - Ace of Cups

In the Ace of Cups card, there is a hand emanating from the clouds holding out a cup, as if in a offer to the querent to take a drink. This cup is overflowing with sparkling water which symbolizes pure and pristine emotion. If you take this offer, drinking from this cup will surely bring you nothing short of emotional as well as spiritual fulfillment.  The cup has five streams of water overflowing from the brim. These five streams represent the power of intuition and show the importance of listening to your inner voice. In order to obtain the kind of emotional or spiritual fulfillment that is depicted in the Ace of Cups, the querent will need to follow this inner voice, and remain true to it, regardless of the situation. This will require emotional discipline, but the rewards that this can bring are hinted at within the card itself: overflowing joy and happiness.

Associations:

Similar or supporting cards:
All the Aces indicate new beginnings, The Fool, The Lovers (love) 

Opposing or contradictory cards:
Death and Ten of Swords (endings) Five of Cups (sadness)  

Ace of Cups combinations
Many combinations in connection with relationships and quite easy to link but, as with all combinations, read in context with surrounding cards. When showing the beginning of married life the Ace of Cups would be part of marriage card combinations to support it, similarly, birth may be surrounded by other cards representing family, etc. The combinations shown below only offer a small sample of possibilities, as this is quite an easy card to work with.     

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Card 2 - Death

Here, we see Death riding a beautiful white horse while holding up a black flag with a white pattern. It is portrayed as a living skeleton, the bones being the only part of the human body existing after death. He wears armor, which gives him his invincibility - signaling that no one can destroy Death. The white horse that he rides stands for purity, as Death purifies everyone. Beneath him, all classes of humans lie in the dirt - a king, and a pauper, meant to remind us that death does not differentiate between class, race, gender. 

Associations:

Similar or supporting cards:
Ten of Swords (ending) Wheel of Fortune (change) and also multiple sevens indicate a cycle change.

Opposing or contradictory cards:
The Aces and The Fool, indicate new beginnings.

Death combinations
Due to the meaning this is one of the easiest cards to read in combinations, so there are too many to list here. When reading a simple line, or string of cards in a progression, the card preceding Death would show what is coming to an end. Look to the following cards to see where it leads, in particular, watch for the new beginnings the Aces would bring.

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