posted May 14, 2015 12:04 PM            

"The thing is, you're focusing on what you're leaving in that card, and while this is important, what is more important to the meaning (IMHO) is what you're going after. The deck can toss out this card to indicate having to leave family for a new job if it fits the situation and there's no other card to say that. BUT, the essence of the card is usually far more than that. It indicates some dream that this person must follow. One they may have had for a long time, or just found recently.

And this dream may seem crazy to others, a spiritual path that odd and uncertain or a career that holds no guarantees of happiness or success. Nevertheless, they have to go after it. Or, yes, they have to be with a certain person they've found who doesn't seem right for them at all. That, I think, is the essence of the card. A kind of "Where you lead, I will follow..."

What you're leaving can be a lot of things--what you love, what you once loved, what is safe and known, what is sure and certain, what loves you. It certainly isn't (or rarely isn't) something you're running from or know, for sure, that you're better off leaving. It's not something terrible or damaging. All you know for sure is that you must leave it to go after this dream, one you can't deny. Or can no longer deny. It doesn't matter how large or small the regrets you feel leaving those cups, and I think the person does feel some pang of sorrow or regret in leaving them. You must follow that emotional dream. Even if it seems crazy to those you trust, even if it seems crazy to you.

That is, I think, what is important to understand about the card. Not what you're leaving, but what you're leaving it for. (Does that help?) "
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=105474&page=2
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=81028

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