Tarot: five of cups

Cups cards in the tarot deck are symbolized by the element Water and rule the zodiac signs Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. In the classic Rider Waite Smith tarot deck, this tarot card shows a person in deep sorrow. Five of Cups is the saddest card in the entire Tarot deck. The person is dressed in black, hangs his head and stares fixedly at three overturned goblets of wine on the ground. Behind the person stand two goblets still upright. You have stared blindly at a loss and cannot see or appreciate what you actually have. One of the overturned cups has a green content and sometimes it's lucky that we can't consume everything we want - some consumption is poison to us. Sometimes life takes away from us that which had hurt us. The person has closed their heart and has a Heart Wall. It is as if the boredom in the card before, Four of Cups has gone even deeper and we all need to be aware that our thoughts can make us depressed. The person in the card also has a blocked Sacral Chakra (healthy emotions).

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