Four of Cups
The Card
A young man sits in meditation beneath a tree, arms and legs crossed. Before him stand three cups. A hand extends from a cloud offering a fourth. He is so absorbed in his dissatisfaction with what he has that he cannot see the gift being offered.
Symbolism
The three cups represent what he already has — enough, by most measures. The cloud-offered cup is divine opportunity. His crossed limbs signal self-protective closure. The tree is stability he is not using.
Dissatisfaction with what is. A figure sits under a tree with arms crossed, staring at three cups on the ground. A fourth is offered from a cloud — and they do not notice. This is the card of boredom, withdrawal, and missing what is right in front of you.
Emerging from withdrawal, new motivation, finally saying yes to the offered opportunity.
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