Five of Cups — tarot card meaning
Grief, loss, mourning, what's left. Upright and reversed meaning, in love, money and the “yes or no” answer.
In short: Grief, loss, mourning, what's left.
Yes or no: NO.
Meaning of Five of Cups
Five of Cups is a figure in a cloak over spilled cups: grief, loss, brooding. Two cups are standing - but you are looking at three overflowing ones.
The Five of Cups talks about the clash of man's dreams and desires with the prose of life. It turns out that his ideas about reality differ significantly from what life brings him.
Things took a turn for the worse and the opportunities that were opening up for man were squandered. The person feels disappointed and depressed. He cannot yet see that disappointment is an experience from which he can learn and which contributes to his emotional development.
Five of Cups in love
In love: separation, mourning after a relationship, regret for what went wrong, unforgiven wounds. Healing requires turning our eyes away from our losses.
Five of Cups in money and career
Financially: loss, failed investment, grief over lost job, dwelling on mistakes. The remaining funds will be enough for a fresh start - if you count them.
Five of Cups — yes or no?
Answer of Five of Cups: NO. Five of Cups says no - the matter involves loss or regret. Rather ask what's left.
Shadow of the card: Five of Cups reversed
The reversed Five of Cups is forgiveness, recovery from grief, acceptance of loss, return of hope - or refusal to grieve. Lesson: the two cups behind you are full.
Five of Cups as the card of the day
When Five of Cups appears as your card of the day, the theme is: Grief, loss, mourning, what's left. Notice where this energy shows up on its own — in a conversation, a decision, a mood — and ask yourself in the evening: “where was I like Five of Cups in the light today, and where in the shadow?”. For a closed question the card answers: NO. In a three-card spread, Five of Cups in the past position describes the source of the situation, in the present its core, in the future the direction it is heading if nothing changes.