Cups · Water
Four of Cupsfor Aries · Health and Energy
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After the joyful party of the three of cups, the four of cups is about living in the past and refusing to move onto a new adventure. This card is about boredom and apathy, but fear not! Boredom is a kind of rest that can lead to new ideas!
Your past is holding you back from seeing the obvious path ahead (e.g stop thinking about how great your ex is, because there's a new person on the horizon if you would look up to see them). Perhaps you are feeling restless at your job or with your relationship, pay attention to that energy as it can motivate you to take a big (and scary) step to make a change!
You are unwilling to take action and it's making you miserable. You are obsessing about something (maybe a past love, maybe a future you thought you were heading toward)-- and it's keeping you stuck. Practice letting your thoughts flow instead of holding onto them so tightly
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Four of Cups for Aries in Health and Energy
The Initiator
Cups are the water suit, so the Four of Cups sits in Cancer. Cancer squares Aries, so the card asks for the move Aries is least fluent in: say the feeling to the person it is about. The friction is the content, not an obstacle to it. Upright, the structure is holding. Holding is not the same as being right.
When reading about health through an Aries lens, the Four of Cups says that you feel like your body is a project to finish, a warning sign you can think past (or ignore), and something that only matters if it is slowing you down. This has either made you the person who outtrains their doubt and builds real resilience, or left you injured and surprised that your will could not override what was actually broken. The body has been sending the same signal for months and nobody has bothered to listen. The Aries blind spot in it is the feeling that nothing you do makes any difference, that you are not the center of the story.
In practice that can look like a stress that shows up in the body. Whatever form it takes, it has settled into something stable enough to hide in.
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