The Four of Cups also carries the theme of regret and disillusionment.
It is important to be open to new experiences and to not let negative thoughts and emotions cloud our judgment. This card suggests that we may be refusing offers or missing opportunities that could bring us happiness and fulfillment. The figure on the card is shown sitting and contemplating three cups in front of them, seemingly oblivious to the fourth cup that is being offered to them by a divine hand. It may indicate that we are feeling dissatisfied, apathetic or unfulfilled, even though we may have opportunities and blessings that we are taking for granted. That way, you will be able to lovingly detach and flow into a new emotional space.The upright Four of Cups is a card that encourages us to reflect on our current emotional state and take stock of our life’s direction. Open your heart – to others, but first and most importantly, to your own self. Accept yourself the way that you are and accept that you cannot control everything. Acceptance is acknowledging of the things the way they are, however uncomfortable that might be. Healthy detachment from the pain or insecurities requires acceptance. In truth, the Four of Cups is asking you to understand the difference between healthy emotional detachment and being emotionally closed off. Connection will expand the room and bring back the flow, allowing the stale feelings to drain away. You can tell them what you need or what you are struggling with. You can open up and let others into your world. Take the opportunity to allow your loved ones support you. When you are feeling it, what is it that you need to be comforted? You can look up and notice others’ attempts to connect with you. Immerse yourself in this standing water and allow yourself to really feel it. The way to expand this container is to really sit with your feelings.
What you really need right now is to expand the space between these four-walls, so your emotions have more room to move around, and you have more space to breathe. You might feel tired, exhausted, or unmotivated. When you try too hard to fold your feelings neatly and shove them back into the container, the water will begin creeping up from all four corners again with more determination, spilling over and beginning to flood everything in sight. If you are attempting to control your own emotional response, to control how others feel about you, or how they perceive your feelings, you end up repressing the authentic flow of the emotions. So, this card warns about the danger of control. You might be trying too hard to control feelings, which in turn gets you stuck even deeper in discomfort. Essentially, Four of Cups warns you to not get stuck in a self-reinforcing emotional loop. If you are feeling wronged, unappreciated, or resentful, it can become a self-indulgent and self-perpetuating cycle of disconnecting and hiding from others, so you prove to yourself that your feelings of being forgotten, unseen and unheard are true. However, while emotionally disconnecting from people around you might have been crucial for safety and self-preservation in the past, it is not necessarily healthy now. As you are hurting and feeling vulnerable, you build up an impenetrable wall so that you do not feel exposed. That is, you might be isolating from others to hide and deal with your discomfort.
The stagnant emotion ends up taking up your entire emotional space, its staleness becoming overwhelming and forcing you to withdraw from the rest of the world.Īs the Four is the emotional foundation you have built up over time, it can show that at this time you are retreating to that which feels familiar. Perhaps you have some unresolved feelings – from past events, formative experiences or your current relationships – creeping up and colouring your ability to connect with your loved ones in the present. However, the close-ended nature of the Four means that you are unable to move past an uncomfortable emotion. Feelings and emotions are supposed to flow and move through us. But while Water is fluid, it can become stagnant when placed in the rigid container of a Four.įour of Cups shows up at times when you are feeling emotionally stuck. Cups cards represent the Water element – the flow of our inner emotional life, the flow of our feelings and our relationships to other people. After the hope and inspiration of the Ace, the choice and connection of the Two, the commitment and growth of the Three, the Four of Cups is the immovable foundation that has emerged.
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