Four of Cups and Four of Swords

Withdrawal twice over: emotional flatness and physical retreat. The tradition draws a real distinction between them, and the pair is where that distinction matters most. The Four of Swords is rest with an end to it. The Four of Cups is not resting, it is not receiving.

Associated with somebody who has stepped back from everything, not only from a relationship. The pair reads this as a state rather than a decision about a person.

Disengagement and time off, together. Read as depletion, and read as the point at which rest stops being sufficient on its own.

This is the pairing in the tranche that most often points at something outside the reading. Sustained flatness with no interest in anything offered is worth a doctor rather than another spread.