39-Four of Cups Upright Rider Waite Love Tarot Reading

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Romance, Love Or Relationships:

Look hard at yourself as to whether you are being realistic with regards to love. Do you have your heart set to the exclusion of everyone else? On someone who isn’t giving you very much back or who is quite literally unavailable?

Card Meanings: Nostalgia, Disillusion, Self-Absorption, Frustration, Meditation, Stagnation, Remorse, Yearning, Reevaluation, Dissatisfaction, Boredom, Missed Opportunities, Refusing Offers, Depression, Kindness, Weariness, Regret, Apathy, Day-Dreaming, Focusing On The Negative, Redemption

The Four of Cups is a card about wishful thinking. It warns us to remember to pay attention to what ‘is’ now, and the many blessings we each currently experience, and not to worry too much about ‘what could be.’ It is all too easy to overlook what we already have in the pursuit of what we don’t have.

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Reversed Cards: With the moon and Cancer playing big parts of the energy of this card, it is no wonder the Four of Cups in the upright position often speaks of being overwhelmed. Here in the blocked aspect, we are dealing less with the structure and mood of our current emotions. Instead, we are choosing to block them out and ignore them altogether. Let’s face it—you are just not that into emotions. You find them pointless and a complete distraction. Why bother wasting energy on feeling when you can just block it out completely? Being numb might be a short-term answer to your current circumstances, but eventually it will all come crashing down on you whether you like it or not.

Complete Book of Tarot: Sometimes the term ‘tarot’ is applied loosely to any deck used for divination. Technically speaking, most dictionaries define tarot as a set of seventy-eight cards consisting of twenty-two trump cards, forty pip cards, and sixteen court cards. Nonetheless, several decks have appeared under the rubric of ‘tarot’ without the classical structure of the standard Marseille deck. Such decks can be considered nonstandard tarots.

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Complete Book of Tarot: Next, I ask the querent to think of a number from one to ten, and I count down from the top of the deck to the card corresponding to the number chosen. I repeat the process of shuffling, cutting, and selecting a number from one to ten until the querent and I have jointly chosen all the cards in the layout. In this way the querent has actively participated in shuffling, cutting, and selecting all the cards for the reading with me acting in a surrogate capacity. Querents are usually impressed by how well the cards they choose by ‘randomly’ selecting a number from one to ten fit the nature of their concerns. I put the word ‘randomly’ in quotes because the choice of each card is likely an example of Jungian synchronicity.