Four of Cups

Description & Symbolism

Four of Cups

A young man is seated under a tree and contemplates three cups set on the grass before him; an arm issuing from a cloud offers him another cup. His expression notwithstanding is one of discontent with his environment.

Divinatory Meaning

Upright

Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations, as if the wine of this world had caused satiety only; another wine, as if a fairy gift, is now offered the wastrel, but he sees no consolation therein. This is also a card of blended pleasure.

Contrarieties. (contrary opposition. (opposition or inconsistency between two things.)

Reversed Meaning

Reversed

Novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations.

Presentiment. (A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.)