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This is tarot, a different tradition from astrology. The card is drawn at random: nothing in the sky chooses it. It is a prompt for reflection and it predicts nothing.

How tarot is handled here

5Five of CupsCUPS
Tarot cardMinor Arcana · Cups

Traditionally read as grief that fixes on what was spilled: loss, regret and attention held by what is gone. It is associated with mourning and with the part of the picture that is still standing.

  • loss
  • regret
  • mourning
A question to sit withWhat has been lost, and what remains that I have not looked at?

Reversed

What the tradition associates with this card when it falls the other way up.

Reversed, traditionally read as grief that begins to ease. It is associated with turning toward what remains, with forgiving oneself or another, and with a sorrow carried privately that is finally spoken about.

  • acceptance
  • forgiveness
  • turning back
A question to sit withWhat am I ready to stop going over?

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