Five of Cups Tarot Card Meaning: Upright, Reversed, Love & Career

Five of Cups (Water, emotions, relationships and intuition) means loss, regret, grief. Upright and reversed meaning, in love, in career, and as advice.

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Five of Cups belongs to the suit of Cups, which is about emotions, relationships and intuition. The five stands for friction and change. Its core themes are loss, regret, grief. Mourning what is gone while ignoring what remains. Let yourself feel it, then turn around.

Five of Cups upright meaning

Mourning what is gone while ignoring what remains. Let yourself feel it, then turn around.

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Five of Cups reversed meaning

Acceptance and moving forward. The grief is easing.

Five of Cups in love and relationships

Cups focus on feelings, bonding and emotional honesty between people. With loss and regret in play, this card, friction and change, asks whether that theme is being met honestly in your connections.

Five of Cups in career and money

Cups focus on fulfilment, collaboration and work that matches your values. As friction and change, the Five of Cups points to loss as the thing to pay attention to at work.

The suit of Cups

Cups is the suit of water: feelings, bonds, imagination and the inner life. These cards describe how you connect and what you need emotionally.

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Five of Cups stands for loss, regret, grief. Mourning what is gone while ignoring what remains. Let yourself feel it, then turn around.

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