Small cards, Cups
Five of Cups
Disappointment
An expectation has met a different experience. Give the loss a precise name so you can distinguish what is gone from what was never promised.
What did you hope would happen, and what actually happened?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Mars in Scorpio
- Suit element
- Water
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Geburah
- Ten-degree span
- 0-10 Scorpio
Sources
The numbered cards combine a sphere, a suit element, and a planetary decan. The Ace begins at Kether; Two through Ten follow the numbered spheres. These are symbolic correspondences, not a birth chart.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 184 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Five of Cups ↗
Spans use a starting boundary inclusive and an ending boundary exclusive. Older texts may describe the same interval with ordinal degree numbers.
Symbols
In the Book T design
Falling lotus flowers leave five cups without water.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 184 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Loss in Pleasure.
Something expected to bring pleasure instead brings disappointment or loss. The account includes affection and generosity that are not returned, and trouble arriving from an unexpected direction.
Thoth: Five of Cups.
Book T’s title is shown separately from the Thoth name. The symbol note below describes the 1912 text, whose design can differ from Harris’s painting.