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Four of Cups

Water · Cups
The Four of Cups card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A figure sits under a tree with arms folded, three cups before them and a fourth being offered from a cloud, unregarded.

Upright

  • Discontent
  • Withdrawal
  • Missed offer

The fourth cup is right there and unseen. Traditionally the card of dissatisfaction that has narrowed the view — it asks what is being offered that you have stopped looking at.

Reversed

  • Re-engagement
  • Noticing
  • Restlessness

Read reversed, the arms come unfolded, or the restlessness gets loud enough to move something.

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About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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