The Five of Cups - Reversed…

I was feeling a little wicked on this Wednesday, so I decided to pull from my darkest deck - The Dark Wood Tarot. But, to my surprise, it delivered a surprisingly bright message. Recently, we have been feeling a grey dullness that is stemming from an unnamed sense of guilt and shame. Likely this is our way of internally working through some past trauma and getting stuck in a cycle of re-experiencing only the worst of it. Today we can expect to make a breakthrough in identifying the source of these wounds that have reopened without our consent. It’s a good day to start treating and dressing these hidden injuries, so we can focus on what is salvageable and destabilize our emotions. If we are to do this in a wicked way, how should we go about this? Perhaps if we write down all that has afflicted us in this way and find a place to bury it in its own unmarked tomb? And, if there was anyone associated with this maliciousness, maybe you should bury a picture of them with it and symbolically shut them away in darkness. Yep - let’s put it all to rest without much pomp or circumstance. It and/or they have taken up enough of our time already. As you shovel the dirt on top, pay attention to how the light starts to flow in all around you.

“The more guilt and shame that we have buried within ourselves, the more compelled we feel to seek relief through sin.” - Brennan Manning

The Five of Cups (Reversed) from The Dark Wood Tarot by Sasha Graham and Abigail Larson