CUPS · VII
Seven of Cups
Imagination at full flood. Visions are real as visions. The test is which cup can survive being set on the actual table.
- ELEMENT
- water
- NUMBER
- Seven — test of stance: seven vision-cups in a cloud, desire as a menu.
- SYMBOLS
- a figure before a cloud of seven cups, each holding a different temptation or gift · a face, a serpent, a castle, jewels, a wreath, a dragon, a veiled figure — the catalog of maybe · arms slightly raised, choosing or dazed · a dark foreground, the body still on one ground
UPRIGHT
- +a rich inner life, art, optionality
- +seeing many futures before picking one
- +fantasy used as a sketch, not a residence
- −addiction to potential
- −projection onto a person who cannot hold seven cups
- −refusing to choose so you never lose six
- IN LOVE
- Idealizing. Name the cup you are actually being offered. The cloud is not a partner.
- IN WORK
- Brainstorm, too many offers, a shiny side path. Pick the cup that has a floor.
- IN SELF
- Your mind can make seven worlds before breakfast. Bless it. Then come down.
REVERSED
The cloud is thinning toward one cup — or the visions have gone fully private and more insistent.
- Blocked — the upright current exists and is dammed.
- Internalized — the drama is inner rather than worldly.
- Excess — the current is overplayed.
Reversed Seven of Cups can be a decision after fog. Blocked Seven cannot imagine at all. Excess Seven lives in the cloud.
- PAIRS WELL WITH
- The MoonThe MagicianTemperanceAce of Cups
WHAT WE WILL NOT SAY ABOUT THIS PLATE
- you have so many options, lucky you
- follow whichever dream is loudest
- you're delusional