Five of Cups

The Five of Cups is a Minor Arcana tarot card.

Meanings and interpretations

The Five of Cups is related to the Water (🜄) element, planet Mars (♂), and Scorpio.

This card can carry a meaning of dejection, disappointment and sorrow over past events. It can also represent a blindness to good in a given situation. Although the person wearing a black cloak pictured on the card has lost three cups, two still stand, and they failed to appreciate what is left. A river flows under a bridge leading to a safe destination, and yet they focus on their three lost cups.

Symbols

• Spilled Cups – Lost happiness and disappointments
• Black Cloak – Isolation and grief
• Standing Cups – Remaining opportunities and support
• Bridge – A path forward beyond grief

Upright

The key meanings of the tarot card Five of Cups:

• Loss
• Grief
• Regret
• Sadness
• Dwelling on the past

Reversed

The key meanings of Five of Cups, if reversed are:

• Hope
• Acceptance
• Recovery
• Moving forward

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