Eight of Cups

Upright meaning

Leaving something that once mattered because it no longer offers enough emotional meaning.

Something to consider

You can appreciate what something once gave you and still recognize that it no longer meets your needs. Consider what staying is costing you.

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Historical texts

Waite: the card

A man of dejected aspect is deserting the cups of his felicity, enterprise, under-taking or previous concern.

Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain

Waite: divinatory meaning

The card speaks for itself on the surface, but other readings are entirely antithetical—giving joy, mildness, timidity, honour, modesty. In practice, it is usually found that the card shews the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence—either for good or evil.

Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain

Waite: reversed

Great joy, happiness, feasting.

Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain

Mathers: meaning

42. Eight of Cups.-A fair Girl, Friendship, Attachment, Tenderness; R. Gaiety, Feasting, Joy, Pleasure.

Source: The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1888) · Public domain