Cups · Water
Four of Cupsfor Scorpio · Self and Identity
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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 Scorpio in Self and Identity
The Transformer
Cups are the water suit, so the Four of Cups sits in Scorpio. That makes this Scorpio's own card, so nothing in it is being read from the outside, and the flattering interpretation is the one to distrust. What it asks for is the thing Scorpio already believes it is good at: say the feeling to the person it is about. Upright, the structure is holding. Holding is not the same as being right.
When reading about yourself through a Scorpio lens, the Four of Cups says that you feel like your own motives are worth interrogating endlessly, a mystery even to you (or especially to you), and something you will judge harshly before anyone else gets the chance. This has either led to you becoming very honest about what you actually want, or to you believing you do not deserve it. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Scorpio blind spot in it is the feeling of being fooled, or of being seen as naive, or of depending on someone who will leave.
In practice that can look like grief you did not schedule. Whatever form it takes, it has settled into something stable enough to hide in.
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