Eight of Cups

Upright

walking away · search · enough

Leaving something adequate because it is not what you came for. Sad, and correct.

Reversed

drifting back · fear of leaving · aimless exit

Circling the exit without using it, or leaving without knowing what for.

Why this astrology

The pips two through ten map onto the thirty-six decans, ten degrees of the zodiac each, so Eight of Cups is saturn in pisces · first decan — a planet working through a particular third of a sign. Aces are the root of their element and the courts carry it as temperament.