The Eight of Cups is known as the Lord of Abandoned Success and is aligned with Saturn in Pisces. It represents emotional blockage, lack of clarity and an ongoing search for fulfillment.
The Eight of Cups is an emotional and spiritual journey - there is always movement with the Eights, and with the Cups it manifests as a dissatisfaction and an inability to know what one really wants.
There is a need to do some deep searching of one's innermost desires, and to come to some understanding of what the subconscious forces in your life have been designing for you and steering you towards. The events of your life will make more sense if you do this work and see the path you have traveled to get you to this point.
On a mundane level, this card denotes a journey, often over water. The journey has some emotional basis, perhaps it is to do with someone close to your heart. Here is an underlying restlessness and a sense of ennui that does not allow you to settle and instead causes you to doubt yourself, your decisions and your direction in life.
The Eight of Cups is linked to destiny and karma, and so there is a feeling of inevitability with this card. Â Some area of your life may be coming to an end as it has fulfilled its purpose whether you realise it or not.Â
You may not like what it represents and it may cause discomfort and some emotional pain, but this is in order that something new may come in, something of much more value to you if only you adopt the patience to let it appear. It may be that you decide to leave something you once considered close to your heart, but which has not lived up to your expectations.
It is time to discover what has real value for you, and to stick to that vision, rather than compromising and being ultimately disappointed. Learn to know thyself, and out of that knowledge will come happiness and fulfillment.
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