Card 39 • cups

Four of Cups

Brief Description

This card depicts sailors trapped in Davy Jones' Locker, symbolizing emotional stagnation, entrapment, and mourning. The cool, void-like imagery emphasizes isolation and the immobilizing pull of indifference. Its guidance warns against succumbing to complacency and urges the seeker to seek stimulation and break free from apathy. Rising above the stagnant waters requires conscious effort and active engagement to avoid being consumed by passivity.

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Story

Davy Jones' Locker was the dreaded watery grave of sailors who perished at sea. With cruel indifference, the spirit of the deep dragged sailors down to the bottom of the sea where poor souls were doomed to join the casualties held in Davy Jones' Locker. The lifeless sailors sink in the stagnant waters of uncertainty. Cool colors depict the spirits of the cold void. They mourn their entrapment, unable to free themselves from their watery graves.

Divinatory meaning

It is important to make sure we do not give in to the impulses of complacency. Seek out stimulation and rise above the waters of indifference.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Lisa Hunt

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