Meditations on Spilled Milk: The Five of Cups

While Fours in tarot are all about stability, the Fives are focused on what happens when change and loss hit a suit. Fives are a time of crisis, of imbalance. For instance, it seems like everything is just great in cup-land, and then the five hits.

Oof. MY CUPS! MY PRECIOUS CUPS! Art Source: Rider-Waite-Smith deck. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Youch.

This tarot card was insistent to be contemplated — it was in my daily draw and my husband’s on the same…