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8 of Cups, Tarot de Marseille
Minor arcana · Cups

8 of Cups

The Eight of Cups stands for a more conscious organisation of the emotional field. It can point to the need to turn your emotional investment elsewhere.

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What the card shows

Eight cups line up in regular groups, foliage slipped into the intervals, with no chalice out of line. The composition stays settled, with no figure crossing it.

Its light

Shifting what you spend, in hours as in presence, brings you back toward what you need rather than toward what you already possess.

Its shadow

Leaving too fast because discomfort stings makes you miss a change that asked for just a little more patience, and you set off before what is left of it.

Keywords

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Notes on the symbolism

Symbolism TdM. The eight comes from doubling the four, and the card makers treat it as a full figure, with no free slot in the middle of the pattern.

What this card invites you to do

Look at where your emotional attention really goes, in time as in presence, and compare it with what this situation gives you back.

A card does not decide for you.
It shows you where to look.

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