Eight of Cups

Titles: Indolence; Lord of Abandoned Success
Element: Water
Astrology: Saturn in Pisces; 0° to 10° in ♓
Time: 19 February - 28 February
Tree of Life: Hod in Briah

Symbols/Colours:

water appears no longer as the Sea but as pools; and there is no florescence in this card as there was in the last;
the Lotuses droop for lack of sun and rain, and the soil is poison to them; only two of the stems show blossoms at all;
the cups are shallow, old and broken;
they are arranged in three rows; of these the upper row of three is quite empty;
water trickles from the two flowers into the two central cups, and they drip into the two lowest without filling them;
the background of the card shows pools, or lagoons, in very extensive country, incapable of cultivation; only disease and miasmatic poison can flourish in those vast Bad Lands;
the water is dark and muddy;
on the horizon is a pallid, yellowish light, weighed down by leaden clouds of indigo.