Seven of Cups
Seven of Cups
Number 7 Water
A cups card: feeling, love, and what you are carrying.
Upright
too many optionsfantasyillusionchoice paralysis
Seven cups in a cloud, each with something different in it, and nobody has reached for any. This is the card of too much choice and not enough reality: daydreaming as a substitute for deciding. Some of the options are genuinely good. Some of them are a snake.
Reversed
claritychoosing oneseeing through it
The fog clears and one option becomes real. Reversed, the Seven of Cups is the good moment: seeing through the attractive nonsense, or simply picking one and finding that picking was the hard part.
What is in the picture
Seven cups in cloud holding a face, a castle, jewels, a wreath, a dragon, a snake and a shrouded figure. Only one of them is covered up.
What it says about…
The line a reading leads with, depending on what you said you were asking about.
A bit of everything
Upright: too many options, most of them imaginary. Make one real.
Reversed: clarity. One of these is actually available.
Love and relationships
Upright: in love with the idea of them rather than them.
Reversed: seeing someone as they are. Better, even when it is less exciting.
Work and direction
Upright: six possible directions and no applications sent.
Reversed: one path becomes obviously the one.
Money and security
Upright: schemes. Look at which ones have numbers attached.
Reversed: seeing through something that was too good.
Me, honestly
Upright: the fantasy is more comfortable than the work. It always is.
Reversed: you know which one. You have known for a while.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: pick one and let the others go. All seven is not an option.
Reversed: yes: you have already seen through the alternatives.
With other cards
With The Magician
Capability meeting too many options. You can do any of these; that is exactly the problem. Pick one and the Magician becomes useful again.
If this card leads
Eliminate five of them today. Any five.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as maybe. Reversed, yes.
“One real option beats six imaginary ones.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
