In cartomancy with playing cards, the Four of Spades (4♠) is a card of blockage.

All fours are cards of order and stability as well as agreement between parts. But the suit of Spades is the “bad” suit, thus bringing about the opposite result.

The Four of Spades represents something closed, something that is over. It is the card of obstacles that obstuct the way, situations that cannot be mended and blockages of all kind.
It is also a card of breaks and breakups, signaling the impossibility to mend a relationship and the impossibility to find and agreement.

In love readings, the card represents loneliness, usually unwanted loneliness. It shows the end of a relationship or a relationship that’s been put on ice. Even if someone is in a committed relationship, the Four of Spades shows the impossibility to agree on anything.

In career readings, the Four can represent unemployment, loss of profession and a really bad work environment. In money matters, the it shows great obstacles, the impossibility to proceed with a purchase or lack of resources.

Generally, this card is more tragic than the Three of Spades, because it shows definitive loss. Only in the presence of very strong, positive cards can the break be mended, the blockage removed. Often, though not always, even if positive cards follow they show a new situation that is unrelated to the past. Often, after the Four, the only possible path is forward and beyond, for this is a card with a certain finality to it.

Psychologically it can show a loner or a misanthrope or someone who feels desperately alone and misunderstood.

Some Combinations:

4♣ – 4♠ = great tension, arguments | an ending
4♠ – 8♠ = inability to get over a break or loneliness
9♥ – 4♠ – 5♠ = letting go of your dreams
4♠ – 5♦ – A♦ = breaking with your old life (can be positive or negative)
8♣ – 4♠ – 7♦ = a sizable severance package