Five of Cups

The Five of Cups quote 
 
“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

Meaning upright
 
Loss, sadness, dissatisfaction, focus on what is gone or not there, glass is half empty, end of a relationship, pessimism, loneliness, impotence, grief, intense emotional feelings, it this it? refusing to let go of the past, deep-reaching changes, flabergasted. 
 
Meaning reversed
 
Feeling deep sorrow but knowing why you feel that way, hypersensitivity, swallowing your pain, lack of empathy, rehabilitation, you’re starting to feel better, always look on the bright side of life!

 
The Five of Cups in your reading
 
You seem completely lost. Eveything you built so carefully collapsed (overnight) and all you can do is cry about over what you lost. People around you are telling you that all is not lost, but you will not listen to them. You can only focus on what is not there anymore. 

You cannon avoid pain in your life. But it is your choice how you handle it. You can either go with it for a while than refusing it. You can either focus on what is lost or what is still there and gives you a good feeling. 
 
The figure on the card can only look at the fallen cups in front of him. The wine (or blood?) flows away. But what he isn’t seeing is that behind him there are two cups standing upright. How long has he been standing there? How active is he in changing his situation or is he only willing to look at what is lost?

This sorrow seems endless but serves an important goal. The flow of your tears will cause your feelings to start moving. Only the element of water can help that. Emotions are of the watery type but you also need real water in the form of tears need to solve them. I'm not saying you have to cry but bottling up your feelings will not help. Eventually they will come out at a later time. Depending on your personality they can transform to other emotions or even physical complaints. Keep your feelings flowing by expressing them when they occur. Do not wait until you are in deep trouble because you never said how it felt. Pay attention to your feelings, what do you really feel? Don’t be afraid that people will turn your down because of them. By bringing them out in the light you will see that there is a solution to your problem.

If you do so you will notice that you will feel better soon.