About these meanings: the traditional descriptions and meanings on this public reference page are taken from material associated with the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck. Some of the language is historical, severe, or old-fashioned. Slogit Tarot modernises this terminology and greatly expands the meanings, examples and interpretations inside the Arcana Nexus learning course.

Minor Arcana · Cups

Four of Cups

Card Code C4

Suit Cups

Rank Four

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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.)