Five of Cups

Description & Symbolism

Five of Cups

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

Upright

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.

Generally favourable; a happy marriage; also patrimony, legacies, gifts, success in enterprise

Reversed Meaning

Reversed

News, alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return, false projects.

Return of some relative who has not been seen for long.