Cups · Minor Arcana
A man of dejected aspect is deserting the cups of his felicity, enterprise, undertaking or previous concern.
A figure walks away under a crescent moon, eight cups stacked carefully behind him. He did not leave in anger; he built the cups, and they did not hold what he came for. Some departures are not failures but completions.
Element
Water
Numerology
8— mastery, achievement, momentum, material strength
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Eight of Cups by life area
A man of dejected aspect is deserting the cups of his felicity, enterprise, undertaking or previous concern.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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