1. Tarot
2. Card meanings
3. Eight of Cups

Minor Arcana · Cups

Eight of Cups

• decline of a matter
• slight consequence

Upright meaning

Walking away from something that has run its course. Waite says it often shows that a matter thought important is really of slight consequence.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, Waite reads great joy, happiness and feasting.

• great joy
• happiness

Symbolism

A man walks away from eight stacked cups toward hills under the moon.

Group

Minor Arcana · Cups

Element, astrology

Not given by Waite, so we give none

Source

Our own plain-English summary of A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1911), Part III §2 (The Lesser Arcana). The keywords are Waite’s own words. Waite’s fortune-telling lists also contain harsher terms; we keep to the reflective readings he gives and never state an event as certain.

Tarot is a tool for reflection, not a prediction of fixed outcomes. This is not medical, legal or financial advice.