5 of Cups Tarot Card: Ride out the sad times
The five of cups tarot card is that piece of you that feels the heaviness of the world. It could be the world at large, or just your own personal world. While you may do your best to stay positive and upbeat, sometimes the simple reality of life is that things can bother you. Things can weigh you down. Things can simply depress you. In times like this, it is important not to beat yourself up over it. Give yourself the opportunity to feel what you are feeling, because everything you feel is part of what it means to be alive and to be human.
When you are feeling sad or depressed, ride it out. In everything, there is a lesson about what it means to be alive. What is this teaching you? Can you identify the trigger? What made you feel this way? If you can find that, you have learned something about yourself. It could be a combination of things. It could be that there is so much going on that is keeping you from the things you would rather be doing. It could be that you feel people are treating you unfairly or expecting too much from you. It could be that a circumstance in your life suddenly changed and you have not yet had time to adjust to it.
Possibly, you cannot even identify it, but you feel it. When in such a state, do not judge yourself for what you feel. Do not say things such as “There must be something wrong with me for feeling like this.” No, there is nothing wrong with you. You are going through the motions of being human just as you would if you were experiencing joy. Every emotion is part of the human experience. We need to go through the negative ones just as we go through the positive ones to be fully alive and understand ourselves.
— Jim Larsen