tarot card meanings · minor arcana · cups
five of cups — tarot card meaning
Three spilt, two standing; grief that faces the wrong way.
reversed
Turning toward the standing cups; mourning completed.
two philosophical anchors, cited
What grief adds · Seneca, Letters 63 (tr. Gummere)
“Let not the eyes be dry when we have lost a friend, nor let them overflow.”
Sorrow from clinging · Dhammapada, v.213 (tr. Mueller)
“From affection comes grief, from affection comes fear; he who is free from affection knows neither grief nor fear.”
the question we would ask
If you turned around, what would the two remaining cups ask of you?
how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.