The Four of Cups completes the Cancer decans in the water suit, ruled by the Moon and carrying the Golden Dawn title Blended Pleasure, which the Thoth deck shortens to Luxury, a curious label for a card whose picture shows a young man ignoring what is offered rather than enjoying anything.
Pamela Colman Smith's scene, a seated figure under a tree with three cups arranged before him and a fourth offered from a cloud he does not see, has no Marseille equivalent; the older pattern's Four of Cups is four cups in a lattice, meaningful only through number and suit to a cartomancer working without pictures. The seated, arms-folded posture recurs nowhere else quite so precisely among the Cups court and pip cards, and it is generally read as Smith's clearest single image of psychological withdrawal in the entire minor arcana, more legible as a state of mind than as an event.
The gap between the Golden Dawn's title, which implies indulgence, and the picture, which shows refusal, is usually explained by the decan mechanics rather than by the scene: Blended Pleasure describes an excess of comfort that has curdled into apathy, pleasure so available it no longer registers as pleasure, which the picture illustrates by showing an offer the young man cannot even be bothered to notice. The Thoth deck keeps this reading closely, rendering the card as a geometric design in which four lotus-form cups sit static around a central axis, deliberately airless in composition.