40-Five of Cups Reversed Rider Waite Finance Tarot Reading

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Finance, Money Matters Or Debt:

The reversed Five reminds you to make a point to count your blessings and to be grateful for what you already have. Again, you are moving into a period where you are more in touch with who you really are and what you are really capable of ‘bringing to the table’ in order to bring more prosperity into your life. Think positive, and cultivate your self esteem.

Card Meanings: Hope, Letting Go Of Grief, Letting Go Of Regret Or Guilt, Summon, Healing, Accepting Help, Overcoming Despair, Return, Moving Forward/ Moving On, Forgiveness, Re-Joining The World, Releasing Emotions, Letting Go Of Sorrow, Releasing Emotional Baggage

Our first inclination with the Lord of Disappointment, is that none of us look forward to this card turning up…..but…since turn up it will, I thought perhaps it would help to have a discussion about how to reduce levels of disappointment in life, how to improve our chances of contentment and how to deal with disappointment when, inevitably, we have to face it. First and foremost, it’s important to realise that, whilst our disappointments often come from outside sources, the reason that we experience them is because of internal beliefs and expectations. We are disappointed when the company refuses to offer us that job we wanted so much. We are disappointed when friends, lovers, family let us down, fail to treat us in a fashion we had believed they should. We are disappointed when something does not work out the way we had hoped. Yet we cannot go through life without expectations. We cannot protect ourselves by holding negative expectations. Hope is a fighter…no matter how much we try to squash it down, it pops back up again…often in the sneakiest fashion. So….perhaps we simply have to be brave enough to hope, honest enough to assess our expectations realistically, courageous enough to accept that sometimes, no matter how hard we try, we are going to be hurt by disappointment. Maybe we have to make the choice to risk ourselves, and accept that sometimes we will get let down.

So on a day ruled by the 5 of cups, don’t go looking for disappointment, spend some time assessing your expectations. Look for imbalance, or lack of realism in your expectations of people and situations. If you find any then be true to yourself, and adjust those expectations till they serve you better. Look for negative expectations (nothing good ever happens to me; I am always going to be lonely/miserable/unhappy; I am too weak/inadequate to achieve what I need) and tackle these with gusto….they create darkness in your life, and serve no purpose. Drive them out of your head with determined use of the affirmation, and agree to go after them every single time they surface. And finally….expect a nice surprise in every single day you live. Expect to find something that fills your heart with joy and gratitude every single day. Go looking for these things….make it part of your daily routine to discover something which makes joy arise within you…….

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Angel Insights : Angels also know that the big things—building a career, working on a relationship, starting a family, saving money, earning a degree—can be challenging. Big projects can take a long time to pull off. Big projects are roller coasters of wins and losses, peaks and valleys. And there is only so much control we have over the big things in life. Some of these outcomes are in the hands of Spirit, or are at the mercy of people and factors we can’t do much about, like the will of others, the state of the economy, etc. When we get too caught up in our big projects and schemes, or if we’re frustrated that the big things don’t seem to be going our way, stepping back and turning our attention to the little things can be very calming and healing. Just like concentrating on angels is calming and healing, concentrating on the little things is calming and healing.

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Creative Tarot: I lined up these stories with a tarot card that describes a similar situation. Standing up for what you believe in is a Seven of Wands kind of thing, and so I placed it there. Perhaps if you draw the same card during a reading, you can use that person’s story as an inspiration for you to find the same strength. Losing a manuscript and needing to start over is the destructive element of the Tower. Dealing with disappointment and humiliation corresponds with the Five of Cups.

Reversed Cards: In the guidebook for my own tarot deck, The Animal Totem Tarot, I talk about this card as a form of community or, more to the point, being part of a community. Here in the shadow, aspect you have some real fears and concerns about being a part of something, almost as if you don’t trust anyone but yourself. This lack of trust and disengagement from the world around you has caused you to become isolated. This sort of separation will only reinforce your disgust in those around you. In order to get this card back in the light, you are going to have to hold a space where you are at least willing to feel warmth and compassion for yourself and those who can make your life happier, healthier, and whole.

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Reversed Cards: Twenty-two thoughts, twenty-two ideas, twenty-two lessons, twenty-two challenges, twenty-two steps—these are just some of the many ways you can describe the twenty-two cards that make up the major arcana. Each card seeks an audience with you, the reader, inviting you to spend quality time with it, to listen to the stories and advice it has to share. Each card asks that you do not rush through it but instead immerse yourself in its conceptual existence. And in return the cards ask for nothing.