Four of Cups
The Four of Cups represents emotional stagnation, apathy, and disconnection from life's offerings. This card symbolizes a person who has withdrawn from emotional engagement, allowing their mind to poison their feelings through overthinking and dwelling on disappointments. It suggests boredom that has evolved into melancholy, a lack of motivation, and an inability to appreciate what is available, leading to missed opportunities and emotional emptiness.
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Symbolism
The limiting stakes of this tent are directly related, constraining like barriers. This is the same musician from the Devil and Sun cards, but he has already cast aside his guitar (symbol of femininity and lightness of being), his sombrero, and thrown away his heart. His feelings have literally spilled out of his head, leaving him half-emptied as he gazes into the puddle of emotions at his feet with the sentiment 'leave me, old woman, I am in sorrow.' A centipede crawls toward him, showing the interweaving of burdens, dogmas, and complexities in regrets and suffering. This person's thoughts are poisoning their emotional state. This represents more of the shadow meaning of the arcana.
Card's Message
Personality – the theme of boredom develops into melancholy, with no desire to do anything and lacking any impulse or drive. The mind literally poisons the feelings. Relationships – relationships have become tiresome and boring, with the mind affecting the emotional sphere. There is detachment from one's partner. Career – the person categorically does not want to do their work; they dislike it. Work has become tedious and brings no joy. Money – this arcana brings little good, indicating impoverishment and decay.
Visual Description
A skeletal figure slumps on a wooden chair beneath a patterned canopy, head bowed and hands clasped between bony knees. At the figure's feet is a small puddle or shallow basin containing a crab-like shell and a segmented centipede, and a guitar leans in shadow behind him. The card border at the bottom reads 'CUPS' and the numeral 4 appears in the lower corners.
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