Waite-Smith 塔罗（1909）
Five of Cups
The Five of Cups shows a cloaked figure mourning three spilled cups, two still standing. It is the card of loss — and of what remains if you look.
下列历史牌义引自 A. E. Waite《The Pictorial Key to the Tarot》（1911），用语反映了当时的时代背景；后续章节提供当代反思视角。
正位牌义
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.
逆位牌义
News, alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return, false projects.
这张牌在做什么
It represents grief that fixates on what fell. It appears at disappointment. The two upright cups are the part the sorrow hides; recovery starts by turning.
文化与传统的读法
In the traditional reading the Five is loss, but something remaining. It has long been read as inheritance and transmission, and by reversal as news, alliances and false projects. The bridge behind leads somewhere still reachable.
取决于你当时的感受
- If you grieve: name it, then count what stands.
- If you lost: not all was taken.
- If you brood: the two cups behind you.
值得想一想的几个问题
- What did I lose that I keep staring at?
- What remains that I have not thanked?
- Am I mourning, or refusing to turn?
常见问题
Is the Five of Cups a sad card?
It is loss and grief, yes — but it shows two cups still standing. The reading is about what remains, not only what spilled.
Five vs Three of Cups?
The Three is celebration; the Five is mourning what was lost. One fills, the other has spilled.
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