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Four of Cups Tarot Card Meaning

Four of Cups belongs to the suit of Cups — the water suit of emotion, intuition and relationships. Upright it speaks of contemplation, apathy, reevaluation; reversed, of awareness returns, new motivation. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's archetype and its astrological correspondence.

Four of Cups tarot card — hand-illustrated Lunara deck
Minor Arcana · CupsWaterMoon in Cancer

Upright meaning

“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”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: contemplation, apathy, reevaluation, disconnection, boredom.

Reversed meaning

“Novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: awareness returns, new motivation, acceptance.

The archetype

In the language of the feeling function (relationship, emotion and imagination — the water of the heart): stabilization — structure that protects, and may imprison.

Astrology

Decan: Moon in Cancer. Water triplicity (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces).

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