The 5 of Cups Tarot Card: Grow Beyond Your Boundaries

The 5 of Cups is often thought of as the disappointment card. Disappointment is not necessarily a bad thing though. It can in fact, be a very positive thing in our lives. When your mind tells you that you want something, but you do not get it, that could just mean that there is something better in store for you. When disappointment sets in, keep that in mind- something better is in store for you.

Or maybe it is an opportunity designed for you to grow and to expand your boundaries. Maybe it is an opportunity for you to learn something new you had not known about yourself. This is important in the journey to Enlightenment because if Enlightenment is a result of mastering each emotion, then disappointment creates an opportunity to explore those such negative emotions. — Jim Larsen

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5 of Cups Tarot Card: What to do when we don’t get our way

If you didn’t care, nothing would bother you. Think of it like that. So when you feel disappointment, like this sad figure in the 5 of cups tarot card, remember you feel that way because you care at all. Things don’t go our way each and every single time. That’s life. We hope for things, but we don’t always get them.

We hope things will turn out a certain way, but sometimes they don’t. This doesn’t mean the world is against us, it just means sometimes we don’t get our own way. Simple as that. There will be those times when we have to accept the 5 of cups piece of ourselves and recognize that we feel disappointed because something we cared about didn’t come to fruition. As this depiction of the 5 of cups shows, the cups are not broken. They are not over turned. The 5 of cups still standing are functional. They are just empty for the moment. They are not empty forever- just for the moment. The disappointment will pass and the cups will be full again. –Jim Larsen

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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

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5 of Cups Tarot Card: It’s not personal

You can’t always get what you want, and things don’t always go your way. If you can be okay with that, you will thrive, so don’t take everything personally. If somebody does not live up to your expectation, it does not mean that it is an attack against you in any way. It just means that they are in a different alignment than you. It’s not personal, so do your best to get over it and not make anybody feel guilty about it, because do they deserve a guilt trip over your insecurities? How is that fair? It isn’t fair.

So, consider the 5 of cups as an invitation to get over what you feel is against you, because it was never about you to begin with. Nobody is in your head but you. So nobody knows what bothers you except you. So in the course of somebody just going through the moments of their life, don’t let it bother you if seems contrary to you want. It’s not their fault. Think about it.

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5 of Cups Tarot Card: Challenge Yourself

The 5 of Cups tarot card will remind you, it will be like that sometimes- you may not get your way. Or maybe it is not so much that you don’t get your way, but something happens that you were not expecting, and it throws you for a loop. What can you do in these cases? You can sit around and brood while feeling sorry for yourself. This is the easy thing to do. To do this, you don’t have to challenge yourself at all. Do you want to go through life though without accepting challenges? This is the perfect opportunity to do so.

Challenge yourself to accept the situation as it is even if it is not what you had most wanted. Get into the flow of the situation and appreciate it for what it is.  Somewhere in the flow you will discover that no matter what, things are as they are meant to be. Go with that flow.

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