A young man is seated under a tree and contemplates three cups set on the grass before him; an arm issuing from a cloud offers him another cup. His expression notwithstanding is one of discontent with his environment.
the plate, in waite's words · the painted card will hang here in time
In divination
Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations, as if the wine of this world had caused satiety only; another wine, as if a fairy gift, is now offered the wastrel, but he sees no consolation therein. This is also a card of blended pleasure.
Reversed:Novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations.
The library's note
A young man sits under a tree contemplating three cups already set before him, while an arm from a cloud offers a fourth he does not appear to want. Waite names the mood precisely, "weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations," satiety mistaken for genuine want, a wine already had making a new gift look worthless. It is the suit's first turn toward discontent, cups' feeling curdling not from loss but from a fullness the figure can no longer taste.
a young page · the keeper's voice pass on the note is still to come