Your Chosen Card – Four of Cups Upright Golden Deck
When upright, the Four of Cups suggests that you are going through a period of discontent, apathy, stagnation, and dissatisfaction. The pleasures of life just dont seem to perk you up. You may feel unfulfilled, as if something essential were missing from your life. Perhaps you are suffering from depression or wallowing in self-pity. You feel stuck in a rut as you focus on the glass being half empty. You need to confront your imaginary vexations and find a way to motivate yourself to move forward. Are you focusing on the cloud rather than its silver lining? Take advantage of the gifts and opportunities that surround you. This cards association with the Moon suggests that you may need to wait until the proper moment in the cyclic to achieve your goal. The phases of the Moon are a reminder that ‘to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven’ (Eccleisates 3, KJV).
Keywords Upright: Ennui, reflection, blended pleasure, anticipation, presage, premonition, novelty, new instruction, fresh possibilities, new goals, the need to wait for a desired outcome to manifest.
Timing: 20 Cancer30 Cancer. Tropical, 12 July21 July. Sidereal, 6 August17 August.
Astrology: The emotional and inconstant Moon (dignified) in the third decan of watery Cancer, realm of the Waite King/Thoth Prince of Wands (Air of Earth) and the Chariot (Cancer). The Moon is linked to the High Priestess.
Number Symbolism: 4 – structure, stability, order, logic, foundation, manifestation.
When Four of Cups is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If Four of Cups is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Four of Cups is trying to tell you. If you had a particular issue in mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.
This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for Four of Cups using cards from the Golden Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.
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Complete Book of Tarot: According to the Golden Dawn, several cards of the major arcana are associated with the element Earth and the earthy suit of Coins or Pentacles. These include:
Portable Magic: Golden Dawn: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a secret Rosicrucian society founded in London in 1888 by three Freemasons for the purpose of studying, teaching, preserving, and practicing ritual magic in the Western tradition.
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Portable Magic: Build the triangle of realization in the manner already described on the western side of the circle so that the triangle points toward the west. If you are seated in the west facing east, the triangle will point toward you. The west is the appropriate quarter for the location of the triangle in the ritual of union because the west is the quarter of elemental Water in the system of the Golden Dawn, and Water is the element associated with psychic activity.