Five of Cups Tarot Card Meaning and Art Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Designation
About the Deck
Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Pivotal and canonical, this deck defined a new pattern that would be followed up to the present. I made a digitally retouched and painted version of this deck, which I call the "Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck". The cards from that deck, as well as a modern English translation of the romantic English descriptions by Arthur Edward Waite (as appear on the Waite Smith Tarot deck) appear in a cross-referenced format in my book, "A Concise Guide to the Tarot: In Vivid Color"
Provenance
Designed by A.E. Waite and Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. England, 1911.
Tags
cups-5, five-of-cups, five, cups
Description
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.Meaning of Five of Cups from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
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.
Reversed
News, alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return, false projects.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Obstacles overcome.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
Generally favourable; a happy marriage; also patrimony, legacies, gifts, success in enterprise.
Reversed
Return of some relative who has not been seen for long.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Union, Junction, Marriage, Inheritance
Reversed
Arrival, Return, News, Surprise, False projects.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
an intimate friend aims at disturbing your domestic happiness, but is foiled.
