MORE: Three of Cups as Feelings in Love & Relationships Is The Three of Cups a ‘Yes or No’ Card? Three of Cups is a very positive card to come across during your tarot reading since it’s linked with celebration, pure happiness, and emotional abundance. Pulling Three of Cups during a “Yes or No” tarot reading signifies a “yes” answer. Feel your feelings and stay energetically open to the return of the light.This card is an apt representation of the famous New Orleans saying “Let the good times roll”, suggesting that you will soon receive news that calls for celebration and reunion. Difficult feelings are part of the universal human experience, and they can tap you into something transformative. Remind yourself that it is okay to be not okay! Remember that even if you feel alone, you are not alone. In a reading, this card might ask you to hold space for your difficult emotions without judgement. Validation might be the first thing you need in order to find a path forward. But this card can also be associated with very real experiences of depression. It is not useful to tell a depressed person to “just look on the bright side.” As mentioned above, the Five of Cups does not ask you to dwell in depression, but it can ask you to give validation to the hardships you encounter. It is true that sometimes you can successfully re-route yourself from feelings of despair, turning to face what is good and hopeful. The deck I co-created, The Spacious Tarot plays off this traditional imagery. Two cups remain standing behind the person, but for now they can only see what has been lost. In front of the person are three toppled cups, representing the source of difficult emotions. Decks based off the Waite-Smith tarot tradition usually show a person in a long black cloak, hanging their head. The suit of cups is about the entire range of the emotional spectrum and the Five of Cups speaks to the heavier feelings in that holistic specrum. It is one thing to let yourself really FEEL what you are feeling, but it’s another thing to put your focus entirely on sadness without lifting your head to see the hope and light that is somewhere within your experience.įive of Cups Tarot Card Meanings in General This card can also remind you not to set up camp in your sorrow.

They can lead you to seek ways to express yourself, to come to a greater union with the forces of the cosmos. These feelings drive you to reflect deeply upon yourself. There can be poetry and art within this state of emotional turmoil. And often, if you can find a way to let yourself feel these feelings fully and completely without judging them, they begin to lift on their own. They are pard of what gives life meaning. States of sadness are not inherently ‘bad.’ Sadness, regret, and loss are part of being human. This card can ask you to question the way you label your emotions. As much as you might wish to avoid these feelings, they are part of the package, just like more pleasant feelings. Feelings of sorrow, loneliness, despair and mourning dwell in this card. In the suit of cups, the five shows difficult emotions. The fives in each of the suits show challenges. For now, she is mired in gloomy emotions.

Above the horse things are getting lighter and five cups are suspended in the glow. The coloring is entirely black and white, accentuating the dreary atmosphere.

Darkness seems to be cloaking her, and she is gazing down into the bleak abyss. Her posture is slumped, even her mane looks raggedy and depleted. Five of Cups Tarot Card Meanings in the Wild UnknownĪ horse hangs her head dejectedly.

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