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Four of Cups Tarot Card Meaning
The Four of Cups tarot card means apathy, contemplation and a missed chance. Boredom, and a missed offer.
Upright
- Apathy
- contemplation
- a missed chance
Reversed
- New interest
- accepting an offer
- waking up
Yes or no
Maybe
The Four of Cups is one of the 14 cards in the suit of Cups. Cups are the suit of water: feelings, love, friendship and intuition.
What the card shows
A young man sits under a tree with his arms crossed, staring at three cups on the grass. A hand from a cloud offers him a fourth cup, which he does not seem to see.
This is the card as drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which is in the public domain.
Upright meaning
The Four of Cups is read as boredom or discontent. Something good is being offered, and you are too fed up or turned inward to notice. It asks you to look up.
Four of Cups reversed
Reversed, it is read as fresh interest, coming out of a sulk, or taking an offer you had ignored.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, the Four of Cups is usually read as a maybe: the answer depends on something not settled yet. Readers differ on some cards, so treat this as one common reading. You can ask a yes or no question and draw a card for it.
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