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The Rider-Waite-Smith/Gold Foil card is true to the nature of these tarot water cards in a mundane divination presentation. The energy of this card is shown as very passive as Smith's young male figure seems almost indifferent to the spiritually offered cup filled with "fresh drink", as he already has reached satiety form the other 3. The meaning of the 4 of Cups is blended pleasure and success, receiving pleasure but mixed with anxiety and some slight discomfort. You might say that instead of pure energy in motion, it is now an emotional idea held in conceptional confinement. The meaning of the tarot 4's is also perfection, completion, and making a matter fixed and settled.

The Gold Tarot- 4 of Cups-Luxury and the Tarot of the Old Path- Four of Cauldrons differ in their meanings.

The Tarot of the Old Path illustrates and elderly man sleeping, while a woman who is dressed in the colors of the 4 elements, Fire (red hair), Water- blue, earth-green, and air-yellow, pours water into his cup This is a woman of power who controls four elements, and is replenishing the man's drink, with water flowing in a deosil (clockwise or sun wise direction) direction implying help and guidance. She is an embodiment of elemental balance and supply.

The man's clothes are in the blue colors of Water, the ruling element of this card. Water is an alchemical element that represents consciousness and emotion. Water is further represented by the other two cauldrons in the illustration.

The primary meaning of this card seems to be an offer of positive help from a powerful source.

This card also shows the subtlety of continual spiritual supply, even if we pay heed or not.

.4 is a number of completions thereby, fixed and settled. There also seems to be a certain indifference to this card. as if disappointment as set in. As things become accumulation, "the common" luxury becomes a form of mediocracy. However, before mediocracy sets in, this is a card of comfort, clarity, of kindness and of a particularly good humor. The 4th Cup is being offered as a new and wonderful future. However, in this emotional state of satisfaction, even parties, dinners, and entertainment may seem endless and common. The only way to keep Luxury as enjoyment, is to be grateful for what one has.

By understanding that the number 4 is a "awkward" number; alone among the natural numbers, as it is impossible to construct a "Magic Square" of four cells, one doesn't expect this mediocracy towards everyday luxury to last for long. Therefore, since 4 being a dead stop number, a different idea of order is necessary to carry on the series. Hence, it is not long for the severity of the 5's. Thus, for now everything is luxurious in stability, but the changing of the Moon, its waxing and waning, states change... this won't last so be grateful for what you have now.

Water is conscious or willed e-motion (Energy in Motion) and for the waves of energy to keep moving, the damming or dampening effort of the number 4, will fail. Change is the formula for motion (Change=Stability) and strife is not going to allow the 4 to stand. 4 is the number of restrictions, as in "4 walls" etc., and as a cage, it shows a certain amount of stability, until the energy contained slowly breaks down the walls of confinement. We all know the weakness of putrefaction in stable water as it becomes a still swamp of decomposition for like emotions, water must keep moving to stay pure.

When the 4 of Cups or 4 of Cauldrons card is thrown during a divination, the querent will be or is experiencing:

• Pleasure, but with some slight discomfort and anxieties. 
• Experiencing a blending of pleasure and success but approaching their end. The querent is experiencing a stationary period in happiness which may or may not continue as long as desired.
• It is too passive a symbol to represent complete happiness and some drawbacks to pleasure are implied.
• Both acquisition and contention in this card. For it is not wrong to enjoy the luxury of your labors, but labor will soon have to begin again, or you will lose it.
• Warns us not to get lost in desire.
• Weariness.
• Disgust.
• Imaginary vexations.  

If reversed:

• Novelty.
• Presage.
• New instructions.
• New relations.

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