Seven of Cups

Upright meaning

Many imagined possibilities competing for attention. Desire and fantasy can make a concrete choice difficult.

Something to consider

Too many imagined possibilities can make a real choice harder. Pick one option and find out what it would involve in practice.

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Historical texts

Waite: the card

Strange chalices of vision, but the images are more especially those of the fantastic spirit.

Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain

Waite: divinatory meaning

Fairy favours, images of reflection, sentiment, imagination, things seen in the glass of contemplation; some attainment in these degrees, but nothing permanent or substantial is suggested.

Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain

Waite: reversed

Desire, will, determination, project.

Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain

Mathers: meaning

43. Seven of Cups.-Idea, Sentiment, Reflection, Project; R. Plan, Design, Resolution, Decision.

Source: The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1888) · Public domain