tarot card meanings · minor arcana · cups

four of cups tarot card, original ink-line art

four of cups — tarot card meaning

The offered cup ignored; apathy, satiety, the gift unseen.

reversed

Stirring from the sulk; the fourth cup finally noticed.

two philosophical anchors, cited

Desire's arithmetic · Epicurus, Vatican Sayings 35 · after Hicks/Bailey

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”

Filling that never satisfies · Daodejing, ch. 46 · after Legge

“There is no greater guilt than discontentment - no calamity greater than not knowing when one has enough.”

the question we would ask

What is being offered to you right now that boredom has disguised as nothing?

how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.