Seven of Cups
Minor Arcana · Cups
What the Seven of Cups means — upright and reversed, with keywords.
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What this card is
A figure stares at seven cups floating in a cloud, each holding something different: a castle, jewels, a wreath, a dragon, a snake, a face, and one shrouded shape. Some are treasures and some are traps, and from where he stands he cannot tell which is which. The card is about too many options, daydreaming, and choosing with imagination instead of information. Nothing here has yet been touched.
Upright meaning
KEYWORDS
optionsdaydreaminguntested
Shopping between imagined lives, where none of them ever has to survive its boring details.
Reversed meaning
KEYWORDS
one choicedisillusion
The pretty options thin out and one real thing has to be picked up.
People also ask
- What does Seven of Cups mean?
- Keywords: options, daydreaming, untested. Shopping between imagined lives, where none of them ever has to survive its boring details.
- What does Seven of Cups reversed mean?
- Reversed, the keywords shift to one choice, disillusion. The pretty options thin out and one real thing has to be picked up.
- Is Seven of Cups a good card?
- Neither, and the question is worth resisting. Upright it speaks of options; reversed, of one choice. The same card is encouraging in one spread and a warning in another — what decides it is the question you asked and the cards around it.
- Where does Seven of Cups sit in the deck?
- Seven of Cups belongs to Cups, the suit of emotion, relationships, and intuition. Its rank carries a real test of patience, strategy, or resolve. Suit tells you which part of life is speaking; rank tells you how far along it is.
- Which cards are read alongside Seven of Cups?
- The same rank in the other suits: Seven of Wands, Seven of Swords and Seven of Pentacles. Comparing them side by side is the quickest way to feel what the suit contributes and what the number contributes.Seven of WandsSeven of SwordsSeven of Pentacles