Eight of Cups

departure · completion · walking away · nobody's fault

Cups are Water — feeling, relationship, intuition, grief.

Upright

Walking away from something that was genuinely good, because it's finished for you. Nobody wronged anybody. It's still over.

Reversed

Circling back, or staying out of guilt rather than desire.

Its element

Water — feeling, attachment, grief, the things that move you whether or not you approve. Water finds the low ground every time.

Saturn in Pisces — the specific weather this card sits in.

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