ten of cups reversed?

[Haunted Wood]

Hey ho everybody So I did a reading about how I can get better marks at university. I tend to procrastinate too much and do every assignment the night before because I feel like I can only get writing when the pressures on. Not the best of attitudes I know. The reading was pretty insightful and I'm determined to have better study habits now and find the motivation to work. It all clicked with me, except for the last card. For 'What can I do to turn things around' I got the ten of cups reversed.

I did a search but mostly found a lot of negative things about it, and only really talking about it in relationships. I don't have much of an idea of what ten of cups means in non-relationship situations. I don’t like the 10 of cups upright, for me it doesn’t seem real, but rather an idealistic dream. It sort of looks like the end scene of a Disney movie or something. I don’t get this card very often but when I do it just seems to indicate wishful thinking or that sense of ‘Someday, you could have all this’, never that I’ve actually attained my dreams. Reverse the card and the landscape is upside down, the people fall into the rainbow, and the water runs out of the cups. But I don’t really know what this card could mean in terms of what can I do to turn things around. Anyone have any ideas about what it means in this situation?

 

[Alta]

My thought is that the card is a reality-check message. It means that you have been in an unrealistic head space, thinking that it is okay to do things at the last minute. When you do that depth and lasting value are missing, and the 10 of cups does refer to qualities of lasting value, things that come from the deepest levels of the heart and soul.

Alta

 

[balenciaga]

Don't get too emotional about it. Don't get depressed. But it is a warning that you need to reevaluate your sense of committment.

 

[minrice]

I think the Ten Cups rx is advising you to start taking your studies more seriously by appreciating the opportunity and means that you have to get an education in the first place. Attending the university is an awesome (like a rainbow) opportunity and perhaps you haven't truly taken that to heart and are taking it for granted. I absolutely took my education for granted, in the real world very few who want to go to university have the opportunity to do so.

I thought it was interesting that you said you don't like this card upright, that it seems too much of a fantasy to you. Why is being in awe of the awesomeness in life an idealistic dream? Obviously you don't have to answer that, it's just something more for your great brain to ponder!
In this sense the 10 cups rx could also indicate that if you see your success as an idealistic dream. If you don't believe in yourself you'd better start if you want to turn things around.

 

[Grizabella]

What are cups used for? They're used to drink from. Are you doing a lot of partying instead of studying? Putting your social life ahead of schoolwork? It doesn't have to mean you yourself are actually drinking, but could mean just socializing too much.

 

[starrystarrynight]

Also, you can no longer count on Mom and Dad to direct you to your studies...time to grow up and accept the responsibility on your own.

 

[jenessa]

I think balenciaga hit the nail on the head so to speak, and that the advice is that you need to reevaluate your commitment, in order to turn things around.

For me 10 Cups rx has always been about feeling voids in your life. So to my way of thinking, under this influence something is missing .. &/or commitments may have been made prematurely or without due consideration.

PS: Many thanx to balenciaga for this extra bit of insight .. it was an ah ha! moment for me, as i can now see how this card can be read in situations that are not focused exclusively on relationships.

 

[Metafizzypop]

I'm thinking along these lines:

The 10 is the highest number of Cups, the water suit. And they are reversed. I'm wondering if this is a way of saying that you must "submerge" yourself in your studies. In order to get better marks, you have to go under the pages of your books for a while, shutting out the outside world, and just drink in all the knowledge, in a manner of speaking. The reason I say this is because I read in a book that the 10 of C rv might mean a flood. And in a flood, everything is submerged.

My 2 sheckles.

 

[Haunted Wood]

Thanks for the insights everybody! I think what balenciaga said is what fits most for me in my situation, and minrice you raise some good points too. Last year I got so anxious and depressed that I didn't bother handing anything in for final assessments. I was working and studying and finding it too hard to do both, although in retrospect I should have just managed my time better and then things wouldn't have gotten on top of me. And there was that sense of feeling a void in my life too, only ever working and studying and little else. I still feel a bit like this sometimes, so there is that warning not to get like that again. Procrastination, boredom and depression are kind of interrelated I think. I'd be so much happier if I started things earlier and committed to my studies more. Metafizzypop, I see what you're saying and I think submerging myself in my studies would be a good idea. Minrice, not sure I can really answer you. I think though maybe it's just that I am a very idealistic, daydreamy sort of person but I worry sometimes that maybe I dream too big and that I'll never achieve what I want. So yeah I suppose in that sense I don't really believe in myself. Like, I love dreaming about what could be but in the past I don't think I've really put in the effort to achieving it, in a way hindering myself. Grizabella, I don't think the cups point to excessive socialising or drinking in my case. And starrystarrynight, my mum and dad don't have anything to do with my studies, although I still live at home. But those are cool interpretations!