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The card of the Four of Cups portrays Psyche, the new bride, seated in the beautiful palace of the god Eros. Through the white columns we can glimpse the sea. To either side of Psyche sit her ugly sisters, clothed in red and black gowns. They are whispering to her that her bridegroom must be a dreadful monster; otherwise why would he conceal himself from the light of the sun and visit her only at night? On her face Psyche wears a look of discontent. Before her stand four golden cups.

Minor Arcana ~ The Four of Cups

The Fours in all the Suits of the Minor Arcana are the cards of divine discontent. Although everything seems happy and rewarding, still there is doubt and suspicion. The Four of Cups portrays this discontent on a feeling level. Psyche lives richly and is visited at night by a loving and tender husband, but still she is not satisfied. The jealous, unprepossessing sisters are in a way the inner promptings of Psyche’s own soul, for although they are spiteful and negative and cause her to doubt, nevertheless they probe at a real problem: Psyche’s blindness and ignorance of who and what her partner truly is. Thus the initial fulfilment of the Three has already proven to be a disappointment, for there is a growing awareness that something is wrong, something is not being dealt with. Each of us has these ugly sisters within us, a kind of shadow side to the personality which means ill yet ultimately yields good, because it forces us to explore more deeply and demand more honesty in our emotional dealings with others. If Psyche had remained in her blind, blissful state of ignorance she would never have grown, and the full potential of both her relationship with Eros and her own self would never be reached.

Thus the Four of Cups, the card of discontented feelings and emotional dissatisfaction for no apparent reason, is both negative and positive. It portrays all our mean and petty suspicions and doubts of another; and this forms the seed of all betrayals. Yet it also portrays a mysterious intelligent force at work within the individual which somehow knows there is further to travel.

On a divinatory level, the Four of Cups augurs a time of dissatisfaction, boredom and depression within a relationship. There is a feeling of being let down or cheated, although the one who does the cheating is usually oneself because of one’s unreal expectations. This dissatisfaction can lead to long-standing, unexpressed resentment; or it can lead to looking more deeply at the relationship, a harder path because previous assumptions and fantasies will then be challenged.

I will explain in my readings what each card means, this is a general interpritation taken from the Mythic Tarot Deck

Information Source: Mythic Tarot Deck
[published in 1986 by Juliet Sharman-Burke and Liz Greene and Illustrated by Tricia Newell (not the New Mythic Tarot)]