What does the Five of Cups tarot card mean?

The most traditional meanings are difficult relationships or unexpected troubles and obstacles in affairs, but most importantly – grief over what is lost. The Five of Cups is a card of sorrow, pain, and melancholy.

What does the Five of Cups reversed mean?

In the reversed position, the card means: a new outlook on life, encouraging news, pleasant experiences, new alliances, returning to old friends, reunion with someone. This is a card of those who are recovering from illness or loss, leaving the past behind, and ready to move on. Renewal, return to normal life. Traditional meanings are news, return of old friends, alliance, reconciliation with someone dear, renewal of broken contacts.

What does the Five of Cups mean in love?

The card often indicates that at the moment a person is up to their ears in heavy feelings that do not entirely correspond to the real state of affairs. Nothing particularly tragic has happened, except for a terrible entanglement in their own desires and fears. Pulling oneself together seems impossible, but in fact, the querent is capable of managing their own life; it just has to take time before they realize it. Sometimes this card appears right after a serious argument or divorce, when feelings are still raw, and an attempt to start something over seems unthinkable.

What does the Five of Cups mean for career?

This is a card of "bummers" – failed projects, false promises, unfeasible ventures, unprofitable enterprises, broken contracts. This is a situation where all sorts of past shortcomings frustratingly surface (for example, failing exams).

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Five of Cups

Cups — Minor Arcana

Lord of Loss in Pleasure

Emotional crisis

Confusion of feelings

Disappointment

Sorrow

First decan of Scorpio from October 24 to November 1.

Astrological equivalents: Leo, Cancer, Saturn.

Saturn/Venus or Saturn/Moon as a symbol of parting, pain, grief, and despair. Mars in Scorpio, Capricorn.

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