Five of Cups: Yes or No
What answer the Five of Cups card gives to a yes or no question: “no”, and how to treat it.
Author: Max Raputum, Warsaw
The answer of Five of Cups: “No”
The Five of Cups is loss and regret, so the answer is “no”: what you ask about is accompanied by disappointment now.
What the answer depends on
The answer depends on your view: while you look at the knocked over cups you do not see what is left.
If the card is reversed
Reversed, the answer is “Maybe”. The reversed Five softens “no” into “maybe”: you accept the loss and begin to notice new options.
What to do next
Admit what exactly is lost and choose one possibility from what is left.
The answer in questions of love and work
If the question is about feelings: The Five of Cups in love is loss and regret: three cups are knocked over, and two are left standing behind you. If the question is about work: The Five of Cups at work is disappointment and regret over a loss.
How to check the answer
Check the answer with three questions: is there “loss” in my situation? Is the lack of “regret” getting in my way? What am I missing if I look through the theme of “sadness”?
About the Five of Cups card
Five of Cups is a card of the suit of Cups, element water. The keywords of the card: loss, regret, sadness, what remains. 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 Five of Cups card in other questions
Frequently asked questions
Is the Five of Cups card a yes or a no?
In a yes or no spread the answer is “No”. The Five of Cups is loss and regret, so the answer is “no”: what you ask about is accompanied by disappointment now.
What does Five of Cups reversed mean in a yes or no answer?
The answer is “Maybe”. The reversed Five softens “no” into “maybe”: you accept the loss and begin to notice new options.
What does the answer of Five of Cups depend on?
The answer depends on your view: while you look at the knocked over cups you do not see what is left.