Four of Cups Tarot Card Meaning: Upright, Reversed, Love & Career

Four of Cups (Water, emotions, relationships and intuition) means apathy, contemplation, reevaluation. Upright and reversed meaning, in love, in career, and as advice.

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Four of Cups belongs to the suit of Cups, which is about emotions, relationships and intuition. The four stands for stability, or a pause. Its core themes are apathy, contemplation, reevaluation. Bored or unmoved by what is offered. Look at what you are overlooking.

Four of Cups upright meaning

Bored or unmoved by what is offered. Look at what you are overlooking.

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Four of Cups reversed meaning

Awakening from a slump. New offers deserve a fresh look.

Four of Cups in love and relationships

Cups focus on feelings, bonding and emotional honesty between people. With apathy and contemplation in play, this card, stability, or a pause, asks whether that theme is being met honestly in your connections.

Four of Cups in career and money

Cups focus on fulfilment, collaboration and work that matches your values. As stability, or a pause, the Four of Cups points to apathy as the thing to pay attention to at work.

The suit of Cups

Cups is the suit of water: feelings, bonds, imagination and the inner life. These cards describe how you connect and what you need emotionally.

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Four of Cups stands for apathy, contemplation, reevaluation. Bored or unmoved by what is offered. Look at what you are overlooking.

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