Eight of Cups: Yes or No
What answer the Eight of Cups card gives to a yes or no question: “yes”, and how to treat it.
Author: Max Raputum, Warsaw
The answer of Eight of Cups: “Yes”
The Eight of Cups is leaving in search of more, so the answer is “yes”: you can leave what does not fill you and go on.
What the answer depends on
The answer depends on your readiness to accept the unknown. Leaving takes courage and preparation.
If the card is reversed
Reversed, the answer is “Maybe”. The reversed Eight softens “yes” into “maybe”: you waver between leaving and returning.
What to do next
Name what you are looking for and make sure you are going towards it and not just running away.
The answer in questions of love and work
If the question is about feelings: The Eight of Cups in love is leaving in search of more. If the question is about work: The Eight of Cups at work is leaving what has stopped nourishing you.
How to check the answer
Check the answer with three questions: is there “leaving” in my situation? Is the lack of “a search for meaning” getting in my way? What am I missing if I look through the theme of “giving up the familiar”?
About the Eight of Cups card
Eight of Cups is a card of the suit of Cups, element water. The keywords of the card: leaving, a search for meaning, giving up the familiar, an inner call. In questions about a choice or a decision it works through its key themes, not through specific events. The general interpretation upright and reversed is on the page of the card.
The Eight of Cups card in other questions
Frequently asked questions
Is the Eight of Cups card a yes or a no?
In a yes or no spread the answer is “Yes”. The Eight of Cups is leaving in search of more, so the answer is “yes”: you can leave what does not fill you and go on.
What does Eight of Cups reversed mean in a yes or no answer?
The answer is “Maybe”. The reversed Eight softens “yes” into “maybe”: you waver between leaving and returning.
What does the answer of Eight of Cups depend on?
The answer depends on your readiness to accept the unknown. Leaving takes courage and preparation.