Cups · Water
Five of Cupsfor Pisces
"Loss isn't the question. What you do next is."
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A tumultuous card-- lots of spilled cups and a lack of connection. This card signifies struggle and loss.
A major setback has occurred. Grieve for what you lost (maybe a relationship, a part of yourself, or a loved one). It's okay to be sad-- this card calls us to honor that sadness. It was a big deal and it's okay that you're hurting. Give yourself time to heal.
In a dark time, you found a path through to the light. Slowly you found yourself again and that inner strength is like a candle in the dark. You can navigate this situation.
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Five of Cups for Pisces
The Dreamer
Pisces is a Water mutable sign ruled by Jupiter, whose natural subject is the unconscious, dissolution, retreat, what is hidden from the self. Cups are the water suit, so the Five of Cups sits in Pisces. That makes this Pisces's own card, so nothing in it is being read from the outside, and the flattering interpretation is the one to distrust. What it asks for is the thing Pisces already believes it is good at: say the feeling to the person it is about. Pisces is mutable: it adapts, and this card is in the middle, where adapting can quietly become avoiding. Water meeting its own element is amplification, which raises the sign's strengths and its usual failure by the same amount. Upright, the loss is happening rather than being feared, which is the harder and simpler thing.
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