From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
Four of Cups
Meanings
Boredom with life. Taking good fortune for granted. Opportunities wasted, gifts refused. An ungrateful person, perhaps a sulky teenager. Remember that your life will only be as interesting as you are.
Reversed (?)
A time for action. Take care not to act rashly though, or to follow a destructive path in an attempt to escape boredom. There are many gifts life has to offer you, now you are ready to accept them.
Description
A young man with a moustache and long, loose red hair sits beside a table under a tree. He is wearing a flowing white shirt and black overshirt, tied with bows. There are three cups on the table before him, and a third is offered to him by a mysterious hand, but he shows no interest in any of them.
Artwork
- Cup: MEMLING, Hans, St John and Veronica Diptych, c.1483, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- Sky: KONINCK, Philips, Distant View with Cottages Lining a Road, 1655, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
- Tree: MELZI, Francesco, Pomona and Vertumnus, 1517-20, Staatliche Museen, Berlin.
- Young man, hand: DYCK, Sir Anthony van, Thomas Killigrew and William, Lord Croft, 1638, Royal Collection, Windsor.
- Table: VERTANGEN, Daniël, Jan Valckenburgh, Director General of the Coast of Guinea, c. 1660, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
The fourth cup held by the mysterious hand always strikes me as Monty Python-esque.