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Five of Cups Tarot Card Meaning

Five of Cups belongs to the suit of Cups — the water suit of emotion, intuition and relationships. Upright it speaks of grief, loss, regret; reversed, of acceptance, moving on. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's archetype and its astrological correspondence.

Five of Cups tarot card — hand-illustrated Lunara deck
Minor Arcana · CupsWaterMars in Scorpio

Upright meaning

“It is a card of loss, but something remains over; three have been taken, but two are left; it is a card of inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not corresponding to expectations; with some interpreters it is a card of marriage, but not without bitterness or frustration”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: grief, loss, regret, disappointment, focus on what's lost.

Reversed meaning

“News, alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return, false projects”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: acceptance, moving on, forgiveness, finding hope.

The archetype

In the language of the feeling function (relationship, emotion and imagination — the water of the heart): crisis — the function in conflict, loss as a teacher.

Astrology

Decan: Mars in Scorpio. Water triplicity (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces).

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