Card 39 • cups

Four of Cups

Brief Description

The Four of Cups signals boredom, dissatisfaction, and a tendency to withdraw into solitude. It points to spiritual crisis, internal suffering, and an inability to see positive aspects of life, often accompanied by self-pity and irritability. The card suggests a loss of interest in work or activities and an unwillingness to exert effort, indicating a need to reengage or reassess priorities. Upright it denotes hurt, yearning, or closure; reversed it warns of indifference, fatalism, or a lost chance.

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Card Name

Four of Cups

Keyword

BOREDOM

Description

This card portrays feelings of dissatisfaction, despondency, anger, loss of interest in the work. Spiritual crisis, internal suffering, a sense of alienation and the desire for solitude. Inability to see positive aspects of life, self-pity, unwillingness to exert efforts. Satiation and irritability.

Upright

hurt, yearning, closure

Reverse

indifference, fatalism, lost chance

Visual Description

A young man reclines under a broad, drooping tree on a grassy bank, leaning against the trunk with a contemplative expression. Four ornate golden cups sit in the grass around him, three clustered nearby and one slightly apart in the foreground. A distant village and rolling fields appear on the horizon beneath a pale sky; the figure wears layered robes and a small feathered turban.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Mila Losenko

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