Tarot card meanings · Cups
What does Seven of Cups mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Seven of Cups upright means “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”, and reversed “Desire, will, determination, project”.
Upright
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.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Desire, will, determination, project.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
Strange chalices of vision, but the images are more especially those of the fantastic spirit.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Seven of Cups fall in a reading?
Seven of Cups belongs to the suit of Cups. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
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Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.