The Deck

Cups
Eight of Cups
- speaks itself surface
- readings entirely antitheticalgiving
- mildness
- timidity
Divinatory Meanings
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.
Waite's Symbolic Description +
A man of dejected aspect is deserting the cups of his felicity, enterprise, under-taking or previous concern