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Eight of Cups

Water · Cups
The Eight of Cups card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A figure walks away over rocky ground toward mountains, leaving eight stacked cups behind under an eclipsed moon.

Upright

  • Leaving
  • Search
  • Enough

The cups are not broken and they are still being left. Traditionally the departure made because something was missing, not because anything went wrong.

Reversed

  • Returning
  • Reluctance
  • Drifting

Read reversed, the leaving does not happen: a return to what was walked away from, or staying without deciding to.

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About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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