Your physical health will be improved greatly if you start practicing getting outside here and there, meeting new people and branching out. This is an extremely unhealthy place to be, as there is much that you are missing. The Five of Cups regarding health is expressing a time of your life in which you are becoming completely claustrophobic or afraid to be social. If you are in some way comparing others to that relationship, then you are not looking straight ahead, only backwards, and that is not healthy. There is a portion of this loss that you have not yet recovered from, and in order for you to move forward you must. Perhaps you loved someone a long time ago and you find that you are unlucky in love since then. When it comes to single life in the pursuit of love, this card usually signifies a loss that is still affecting you. In this there is some form of separation or loss that is transiting you right now, so the best thing you can do right now is hold onto the ones that do love you so that they can help you through the process of grief. Spend the time grieving that you need to and then move on. Sometimes we no longer want what you both wanted originally. If the moment has already passed and a separation had to happen, then know that through your sorrow of this change, sometimes change is necessary for you to discover even more about yourself. If you are currently in a relationship that is having problems, this is going to be the card that will let you know that you must take charge of this situation and do your best to appreciate what you have or you are going to lose it. The Five of Cups will present itself in a love reading to both honor what you are going through and to let you know what to do about it. Make a determined choice to pick up the pieces of your broken heart and move forward to your new beginning. Right now it is important for you to let go of any attachment you might have to the outcomes that you have and just take one step at a time. Create some goals that you wish to accomplish but take some time to just flow. To get out of this cycle, you must focus all of your energy on a new endeavor or project. True healing can occur only when you let go of the sorrow and begin to have happy and healthy interactions with others in your life who do love you. Going inward makes sense, but remember not to get stuck. The process of letting go of a person or a lifestyle takes time. In some cases you have only just begun to appreciate what it is that you had now that you have lost it, and that is also a very challenging concept to take in. This card is one that calls out to your sadness and understands it, but the Five of Cups is telling you that there is so much more in store for you if you would only allow yourself to drink the wine of pleasure from the two remaining cups. You find that life is now no longer what you thought it would be and you are having a hard time feeling the need or want to go on.

There is more for you to see, but right now it is exceptionally difficult to do so. Any kind of loss that makes you feels regret falls under the umbrella of this card. This card is referencing matters of the heart, a broken marriage or a loss of a friendship. We become extremely attached to the plans that we make in life, and when something comes through to derail those plans it is extremely difficult at points to get through. Disappointment comes from becoming emotionally attached to something that has not come to fruition as you expected.

In life we also get swept up in what we have lost. But he cannot make any move toward realizing they are there, because he is too swept up in his sadness.

He is so focused on the cups that have tipped over that he has completely missed the fact that there are two perfectly good cups of wine still available to him. Three cups lay on the ground, having spilled the wine of pleasure. The image of the Five of Cups depicts a person who is wrapped up in the black cloth of despair. The lesson from the Four of Cups is extended to this card, but it also includes an extra layer of regret and loss over a pleasure that you thought you would get a chance to experience. When the Five of Cups appears in your reading, you are going through a transit of emotional disappointment.

Five of cups tarot card meaning