Cups · Water
Four of Cupsfor Gemini
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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 Gemini
The Communicator
Gemini is an Air mutable sign ruled by Mercury, whose natural subject is talk, siblings, short trips, the daily traffic of information. Cups are the water suit, so the Four of Cups sits in Cancer. Cancer sits directly beside Gemini, the one relationship a sign cannot see clearly because it is too close to get any distance on. What it asks for is this: say the feeling to the person it is about. The difficulty is noticing it is being asked at all. Gemini is mutable: it adapts, and this card is in the middle, where adapting can quietly become avoiding. The card and the sign pull in different directions, and the friction is the information. Upright, the structure is holding. Holding is not the same as being right.
Keep the thread
Artemis remembers what you asked, and tells you when something comes back around.
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