Tarot Card of the Week (April 7-13, 2025): Four of Cups

Four Cups: God’s Frustration and Hidden Offerings

This week we draw four cups. This is an invitation to the universe to see beyond what you first encounter. Like the contemplative sloth of our images, while an invisible cup floats within reach while hanging from its familiar branch, this card asks us to recognize what we are overlooking due to emotional stagnation and habitual patterns.

The combined Saturn of Venus and the Libra full moon lit up mid-week will give you a powerful opportunity to be free from emotional numbness and rediscover what truly nourishes your soul. Four whispers of cups: Your complaints are valid, but they are incomplete too.

Explore the four meanings of cups, why sloths are the perfect symbol of this energy, and how to navigate this week’s universe weather with a new awareness.

The Four Essences of Cup Cards

In the traditional Rider Weight Tarot, a fourth cup is offered with hands that are not embodied from the clouds, sitting under a tree, arms crossed, staring at three cups on the ground. This isn’t just boring. It is a pivotal moment when you choose to stay emotionally stagnant or accept God’s gifts that require a changing perspective.

Four important meanings of cup cards:

• Emotional and reevaluation
• Recognize when you are satisfied or disconnected
• The opportunity to show up when you are least expecting it
• God’s timing and unexpected blessings
• Indifference as a signal that something needs to be changed
• Find fresh inspiration beyond what’s familiar

Four cups tell us that feeling like emptiness can actually be clear for something new to arrive.

Why are they sloths?

The sloths in our artwork are not merely attractive visuals, but they perfectly embody the four cup energies.

• Deliberately moving slowly, sloths remind us that we spend time on our emotions rather than passing them.
• That upside down perspective symbolizes how changes in perspective can be revealed before they were not visible.
• The tendency to stay in one place for extended periods reflects the tendency of humans to cling to their emotional comfort zones
• That peaceful attitude is in contrast to the turbulence within.

Like sloths, we sometimes need to be uncertain before we can reach out to something new.

Four cups of astrology this week

This week’s Celestial Alignments amplifies four cup energy in an incredible way.

• April 7-8: Venus-joined Saturn in Pisces recommends looking into relationship patterns that are no longer useful to you. Four of the cups ask: Are you calmed down for less love or creativity?
• April 9: Libra’s Full Moon lights up the dynamics of relationships and brings emotional clarity. What did you refuse to see about your connections with others?
• April 11-12: Mercury in Pisces cleans up the mist of communication and helps to clarify emotions that you could not name.
• April 13: VENUS begins to separate from Saturn, offering emotional relief and new possibilities if you look up and notice.

Walking the week

Monday from Wednesday: emotional inventory

When the week begins with the powerful conjunctions of Venus and Saturn, you may feel the weight of relational patterns and creative blocks. It’s time to feel uncomfortable rather than swiftly swaying on the next branch like our sloth friends.

Four of cups ask to introduce your emotional landscape into the catalog. Which of the following has become a habit rather than a choice? Mercury’s direct movements help to clean up the mental mist and allow you to see the difference between what you accept and what you really want.

Reflection Question:

• Am I the feeling I most resist feeling now?
• If you stop focusing on something that isn’t working, what will you notice instead?
• Where have I said yes when my mind feels “maybe” or “no”?

Thursday to Friday: Dissatisfaction = Data

Midweek of Libra’s Full Moon shines a glorious light on four of the energy of the cup, revealing that your complaints aren’t the problem. That’s information. In the traditional cards, the figure stares at three cups, ignoring the fourth one offered from above. What God’s offering are you overlooked because you are stuck with what you didn’t fulfill?

This month’s lighting helps us to recognize where balance is missing, indicating that emotional disruptions often occur when a certain situation has crossed but has not yet been admitted.

Reflection Question:

• What patterns of relationships have been repeated in my life?
• Where do you crave more reciprocity and balance?
• What happens if I treat my complaints as a compass rather than as a burden?

Weekend: Choose wisely

As Venus begins to separate from Saturn’s restrictive embrace, we see a new path of love, creativity, or self-expression. The four energy of the cup moves from contemplation to choice. This is the “Jungle Temple moment” in which the treasure you were looking for reveals itself, but only if you want them to look up and reach for you.

This weekend will give you the opportunity to be free from emotional stagnation and choose in different ways. Remember: the fourth cup on this card was always there. It’s ready to receive it that changes.

Reflection Question:

• If you know you can’t fail, what will you reach?
• How do you show respect while you are open to what you can do?
• What small action do you signal to myself that I am ready for something new?

4 cups for reading

upright

• An invitation to reevaluate emotional investments
• God’s Timing – What appears as a delay is actually perfect timing
• Opportunities that require a shift in perspective to recognize
• Fertile void between the ending and beginning
• A chance to break emotionally complacent patterns

reverse

• Move past indifference towards engagement
• Finally, I’ve always noticed what’s on offer
• Overcoming emotional blocks and stagnation
• Accepting new emotional opportunities
• Seeing fresh eyes and new appreciation situation

Four lifelong cups

relationship

This card encourages an honest assessment of emotional patterns. Are you calmed down because you are less than you deserve? Or maybe you overlook the beauty of what you already have? The four cups do not idealize or reduce the connections, and ask to see them clearly.

Career

It is the time to recognize a particular occupational situation when you value it. Your complaints at work may not be burned out. It could be evolution. Look for unexpected opportunities that don’t fit your original plans but perfectly match your growth.

Personal growth

If you feel emotionally paralyzed or mutilated, the four cups validate this as part of your journey – not a permanent destination. This card appears when you are ready to break through your indifference and reintroduce your real emotions.

The Spiritual Lessons of the Four Cups

The four cups teach that God’s gifts often arrive in disguise, especially when concentrated elsewhere. Spiritual growth can require periods of dissatisfaction to create space for something more consistent with our souls.

It’s not about forcing gratitude or dismissing effective feelings. It is to recognize that our perspective limits or expands what we can receive.

I’m using 4 cup energy this week

• Practice daily “perspective shift” meditation, intentionally looking at the situation from three different angles
• Keep the “Hidden Blessings” journal.
• Take another route home, eat at a new restaurant, break small habits and refresh your perspective
• Repeat this mantra: “I accept receiving in unexpected ways.”

Conclusion: Look up and receive

You don’t have to force yourself out of emotional contemplation this week. Hanging in uncertainty, like our thoughtful sloth friends, is exactly where growth occurs. Four of the cups remind us that God’s timing is at work, even in the days of dissatisfaction and Enny.

Respect your feelings while remaining open to unexpected offerings this week. The cup you’ve been waiting for may be quickly floating within reach if you just look up and notice it.

What emotional patterns are you ready to retire? Stars and cards suggest: Now is the time to investigate.