What does Five of Cups mean reversed?

The Thoth Tarot is traditionally read without reversed cards: the reader judges from the cards around it whether a card is well or ill dignified. This is its ill-dignified or blocked reading: Grief denied or prolonged; you fix on what is missing and do not see what remains.

What are the Kabbalah and astrology correspondences of Five of Cups?

In the Golden Dawn system Five of Cups corresponds to the sephirah Geburah, the element Water and Mars in Scorpio in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Five of Cups — Disappointment

Disappointment

disappointment · loss · regret · frustration · grief

A reflective starting point

What is Five of Cups — Disappointment asking you to look at?

Meaning changes with the position, the surrounding cards and your question. Take what follows as a language, not a verdict.

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Upright

Acknowledge the loss and let the pain flow: not everything is lost, but you need time to process before starting again.

At first sight

Disappointment, loss, betrayed expectations. It points to breakups, regrets, wounded feelings and the need to process grief, often arriving just when everything seemed calm.

Within you

The backlash of a collapsing illusion: frustration can turn into bitterness if it is not acknowledged and mourned, or into maturity if it is understood.

On the path

Water in Geburah, Severity, with Mars in Scorpio in the first decan: Martial fire makes the waters evaporate. Disappointment is emotion colliding with reality, the necessary pain of purification.