From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
Eight of Cups
Meanings
Setting forth. To leave behind much of what you know and begin a quest for fulfillment. You have a comfortable life and have met many of your goals, but you need new challenges. It is time to move on.
Reversed (?)
Don't run away. The situation needs resolving. Work is needed, but it is worth the effort. You can hide from others but not from yourself, and the life of the eternal traveler can be a lonely one
Description
A young man in a feathered cap and blue robe sets forth on a moonlit night. An owl flies overhead and the full moon reflects in a lake. Behind him is a rocky cliff on which eight abandoned cups stand.
Artwork
- Cup: MEMLING, Hans, St John and Veronica Diptych, c.1483, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- Night landscape: ELSHEIMER, Adam, Flight into Egypt, 1609, Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
- Rocky cliff: BELLINI, Giovanni, St Jerome Reading in the Countryside, 1505, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- Feather: HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger, Edward, Prince of Wales, c.1539, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- Boy: HOLBEIN, Ambrosius, Portrait of a Young Man, 1518, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
- Owl: BOEL, Pieter, Still Life with Owl, 1600s, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent.
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