Five of Cups
The Five of Horns depicts a gray, blending sky and ground with a figure half skeletal and half living, symbolizing deep grief and yearning. Souls stream into overturned and upright horns, emphasizing loss, memory, and emotional desolation. Upright meanings point to hopelessness, depression, grief for the past, and discontent with the present, while reversed meanings indicate recovery, renewal, and healing from regret. The Bind Rune directs the querent to actively pull themselves out of emotional hell and move toward renewed kinship and improved circumstances.
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Card Name
FIVE OF HORNS
Description
The sky and ground seem to blend in with one another in grayness. A figure holds a hand up against their cheek. Half of their face is skeletal, and the other is living flesh. Their single human eye is closed. Their other hand points down towards the ground. A stream of souls floods into the landscape below two overturned drinking horns. Many more souls appear in three upright horns. Three Runes appear on this card.
Upright
A deep yearning, hopelessness, depression, grief for the past, discontent with the present.
Reversed
Recovery, renewal, situation looks better, renewed kinship, recovering from regret.
Bind Rune
Pull yourself out of emotional hell.
Visual Description
A mourning woman with long dark hair and a half-skeletal face rests her head on one hand and points with the other toward a tipped-over horn or cup spilling small, pale figures into a misty river. Several upright horn-like cups stand nearby, their rims smoking and empty of the tiny figures. Jagged mountains and a cloudy, brooding sky form the background while glowing runic symbols float around the scene and a numeral 5 appears above. The palette is gray and fog-bound, giving the whole scene a cold, sorrowful atmosphere.
Runic tarot
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