Waite–Smith, Cups
Eight of Cups
What you can see
A figure with a staff walks away from eight cups arranged in the foreground, toward an uneven landscape beneath the moon.
What Waite says
Waite describes leaving an earlier concern and the decline or diminished importance of a matter. He also records opposing meanings, so departure is a strong visual thread rather than his only listed interpretation.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 210 ↗Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.