Tarot Journey with Leisa ReFalo

The Suit of this card is cups. Cups correspond to the element of water and are concerned with emotions, feelings and intuition. The number of this card is five. Fives are related to constriction, purification and refinement. These two combine to make a painful constricted heart.

Pictured in this card a man with black hair dressed in a black coat and brown boots. He looks down at three spilled cups. Red (passion) and green (growth) liquid are spilled on the barren brown ground. There are two upright cups behind him. The sky is gray and the earth is brown. There is a blue river (emotions) running through the landscape with a bridge that allows crossings. On the other side of the river is a castle with trees and green ground. The castle in the background represents what is desired. The river of emotions lies between the man and the desire. There is a bridge that connects the two. The colors red and green are a reference to Venus the goddess of love.

The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)

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. Divanatory Meanings: 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.

4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana

Five.–Generally favourable; a happy marriage; also patrimony, legacies, gifts, success in enterprise. Reversed: Return of some relative who has not been seen for long.

The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing

In the Natural Position: 4 Fives = regularity; 3 Fives = determination; 2 Fives = vigils.
Reversed: 4 Fives = order; 3 Fives = hesitation; 2 Fives = reverse.

The Tarot of the Bohemians by Papus; tr. A. P Morton, [1896]

Signification of the Four Series of Minor Arcana in the Divining Tarot

CUPS. Preservation. Love. Instruction.

FIVE. Opposition to the obstacles. Victory over the obstacles after a struggle.

The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]

Meanings of the Cards

45. Five of Cups.–Union, Junction, Marriage, Inheritance; R. Arrival, Return, News, Surprise, False projects.

Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa

Scorpio I

A woman of good face and habit, and two men striking her; the operations of these are for comliness, beauty, and for strifes, treacheries, deceits, detractations, and perditions;

Picatrix the Goal of the Wise by Ghayat Al-akim

Book "T" The Tarot

XXX. The Lord of Loss in Pleasure: Five of Cups or Chalices

A WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, holding lotuses or water-lilies, of which the flowers are falling right and left. Leaves only, and no buds, surmount them. These lotus stems ascend between the cups in the manner of a fountain, but no water flows therefrom; neither is there water in any of the cups, which are somewhat of the shape of the magical instrument of the Zelator Adeptus Minor.

Above and below are the symbols of Mars and Scorpio for the Decan.

Death, or end of pleasure: disappointment, sorrow and loss in those things from which pleasure is expected. Sadness, treachery, deceit; ill-will, detraction; charity and kindness ill requited; all kinds of anxieties and troubles from unsuspected and unexpected sources.

Geburah of HB:H (Disappointment in love, marriage broken off, unkindness of a friend; loss of friendship).

Herein rule HB:LVVYH and HB:PHLYH.

Often the General signification of the Majority of a particular suit and of the particular signification of the either 3 of 4 cards of a sort in a reading:

• A Majority of Cups Pleasure, merriment.
• 4 Fives Order, regularity.
• 3 Fives Quarrels, fights.