Card Meaning: Four Of Cups
General
This card has a tone of deliberate solitude. The figure on the card is in a moment of self-reflection, maybe even to the point of self-absorption but
he is not happy with his present situation. There
is a hand offering to him a cup, symbolizing some sort of insight, gift or
solution to a problem. He is just looking infront of him in three cups totally
ignoring the offer. This card can be comprehended as a warning that we are maybe
distracted and that we need to look carefully around, maybe there is something
that we are missing, or perhaps we are taking lightly that which we already
have?
Reading
Positive:
re-evaluation, seeing thing as they are, change of perspective, new possibilty.
Negative: overindulgence, immaturity, depression, boredome.
A young man is seated under a tree and contemplates three cups set on the
grass before him; an arm issuing from a cloud offers him another cup. His
expression notwithstanding is one of discontent with his environment.
Divinatory Meanings: Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations, as if the wine
of this world had caused satiety only; another wine, as if a fairy gift, is now
offered the wastrel, but he sees no consolation therein. This is also a card of
blended pleasure. Reversed: Novelty, presage, new instruction, new
relations.