Four of Cups

UPRIGHT

A figure sits beneath a tree, arms folded, three cups on the ground before him and a fourth offered by a hand from a cloud — which he is not looking at. The Four of Cups is dissatisfaction, the inward turn, the inability to see what is being offered because attention is fixed on what is not. The card asks the querent to look up.

REVERSED

Reversed, the Four of Cups is the moment the querent finally looks up, or the dissatisfaction acknowledged as the problem rather than the diagnosis. The card can name the end of a season of withdrawal, the slow return of curiosity, or the willingness to accept the cup that was always being offered.

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