Five of Cups
Five of Cups — the suit of water, of feeling and the inner life.
A dark, cloaked figure, looking sideways at three prone cups; two others stand upright behind him; a bridge is in the background, leading to a small keep or holding.
Divinatory 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.
Reversed
News, alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return, false projects. [Illustration]
From The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, A. E. Waite, page 54 of the library’s copy. The words are Waite’s.
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