Eight of Cups

Minor Arcana · Kupa Sekiz

Movement and mastery in emotion, relationship and intuition.

Upright: water, emotion, relationship and intuition

Reversed: blocked, excess

Waite's description

A man of dejected aspect is deserting the cups of his felicity, enterprise, under-taking or previous concern.

Divinatory Meanings

The card speaks for itself on the surface, but other readings are entirely antithetical—giving joy, mildness, timidity, honour, modesty. In practice, it is usually found that the card shews the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence—either for good or evil.

Reversed

Great joy, happiness, feasting.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911 — public domain.

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