Sadness, loss, grief, despair, abandonment, guilt, remorse, regret, trauma, bereavement, mourning, heartbreak, unwelcome change, emotional instability, focusing on loss, focusing on negative emotions, isolation, loneliness, emotional baggage, divorce, separation, anger, disappointment.
As a figure stands beside overturned cups, the Five of Cups shows us a moment of pure sadness. What happened? It doesn’t really matter! This is a painful reminder of things that are gone and cannot be retrieved.
It is confronting, but do take the time to watch this interview with Marjorie Woodrow who was stolen from her parents when she was 2 years old. Like so many others like Marion Woodrow suffered abuse in many children’s homes.
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Sydney woman Valerie Linow became the first member of the stolen generations to win monetary compensation for her cruel treatment after authorities removed her from her family. When she was nine, she was taken to south-west New South Wales, to the Cootamundra domestic training home for Aboriginal girls. She left six years later and was forced to work in the town of Wombat for a former police officer, who raped her when she was 15.
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