Four of Cups
Four of Cups
Number 4 Water
A cups card: feeling, love, and what you are carrying.
Upright
apathythe offer not noticeddiscontentwithdrawal
Something is being offered and you cannot be bothered to look at it. The Four of Cups is the specific flatness of having enough and wanting none of it: three cups already there, a fourth held out, and the figure with his arms folded. Not depression exactly; boredom with your own life.
Reversed
re-engagingnoticingacceptance
The arms unfold. Reversed, this is interest coming back, an offer finally noticed, or the end of a flat stretch. One of the more welcome reversals in the deck.
What is in the picture
A man under a tree with arms crossed, three cups in front of him, a hand offering a fourth from a cloud. He is looking at none of them.
What it says about…
The line a reading leads with, depending on what you said you were asking about.
A bit of everything
Upright: something good is on offer and you are not looking at it.
Reversed: you are coming back to life. Let it happen slowly.
Love and relationships
Upright: taking someone for granted, or being taken for granted, quietly.
Reversed: noticing them again.
Work and direction
Upright: bored in a job that is objectively fine. That is still a real problem.
Reversed: interest returning, or a new angle on old work.
Money and security
Upright: an opportunity dismissed without being read.
Reversed: worth a second look at the thing you waved away.
Me, honestly
Upright: flat. Not broken, flat. They need different treatment.
Reversed: you are starting to want things again.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: no, but mostly because you cannot be bothered. Notice that.
Reversed: yes: say yes to the thing you nearly ignored.
If this card leads
Look at the fourth cup before you say no to it.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as no. Reversed, yes.
“I can look at what is being offered.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
