Eight of Cups

DeclineMildnessTimidityHonour

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The card speaks for itself on the surface, but other readings are entirely antithetical—giving joy, mildness, timidity, honour, modesty. In practice, it is usually found that the card shews the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence—either for good or evil.

Reversed

Great joy, happiness, feasting.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

The picture

A man of dejected aspect is deserting the cups of his felicity, enterprise, undertaking or previous concern.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

Older readings

Marriage with a fair woman. Reversed: Perfect satisfaction.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §4. Waite collected these and says they often disagree with the main meanings.

Waite wrote in 1911 and some of his meanings show it. Tarot is a tradition of reflection, not a prediction, and no card decides anything for you.