Four of Cups
Correspondences
- Sephirah: Chesed
- Element: water
- Zodiac: Cancer
- Decan: 3rd decan of Cancer
- Thoth Title: Luxury
Meanings
Rider-Waite-Smith
Reversed
Keywords: Great joy, happiness, feasting.
Upright
Keywords: The card speaks for itself on the surface, but other readings are entirely antithetical—giving joy, mildness, timidity, honour, modesty. In practice, it is usually found that the card shews the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence—either for good or evil.
Thoth / Crowley-Harris
Upright
Keywords: Moon in Cancer, love, tenderness, care; emotional riches
You are being given much love and devotion. Enjoy it without becoming dependent on it.
Number 4: Stability
Structure, order, but tipping toward rigidity. The element solidified, potentially stagnant.
Narrative position: consolidation