Five of Cups

Card 41 of 78

Five of Cups — Rider-Waite tarot card

Keywords: loss, conflict, feeling, relationship, intuition

Upright meaning

Five of Cups is a loss — the disruption that tests what was built, in the realm of feeling, relationship and intuition.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, Five of Cups turns that reading inward or awry: emotion withheld, overflowing or turned inward. Read it as the same stage under strain — delayed, resisted, or overdone rather than simply cancelled.

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