Five of Cups

Tarot de Marseille

Essence: A heart looking beyond what's safe, emotional faith, a new ideal, romantic hope, a vocation or belief that gives meaning

General meaning

idealfaithnew hopeopennessvocation

↕ Reversed: Faith that fades or gets twisted, disenchantment, over-idealising, emotional fanaticism, hope turned into fantasy

Love: new excitementfalling for someone who awakens something differentromantic idealdepthfaith in love
Friendship: friendship through idealsspiritual affinityshared faithadmirationopenness
Family: wanting more depthexcitement about the homefaith in the familyshared idealsopenness
Career: vocationmeaningful careernew professional interestidealpurpose
Work: vocationmeaningful workprofessional excitementnew interestpurpose
Studies: vocationmeaningful studyacademic idealexcitementinspiration
Money: investing out of convictionan ideal that moves youhelp through faitha new source through vocationa meaningful project
Pets: a hopeful bondan animal that awakens somethinghopeopennesstenderness
Health: faith in recoverya therapy that gives hopeopennesshopemeaning
Choices: follow an idealopen up to something newfaithvocationmeaning
Creative projects: a project with an ideala causefaith in the ideaexcitementmission
Creativity: idealistic inspirationfaith in the workvisionexcitementmessage

The keywords for each topic describe the card upright; the reversed meaning has its own line.

With vocation cards, the heart finds meaning. Example: Five of Cups + Judgement is discovering what fulfils you.
With Cups, it's new excitement. Example: Five of Cups + Two of Cups is falling for someone who stirs you up.
With The Moon, faith becomes fantasy. Example: Five of Cups + The Moon is idealising something that isn't real.

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