Seven of Cups

To gain a more complete understanding of the Seven of Cups, an overview of the suit and number is provided first.

Overview of the Cups

Aliases: Chalices

Element: Water

Zodiac: Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio

Playing Card Suit: Hearts

Class: Artists and Visionaries

Rules: The Heart

The Cups focus on emotions and matters of the heart. Tarot card meanings for the Cups suit tend to guide emotional questions of almost any nature.

Connected to the element of Water, this suit rules the Zodiac Water signs of Pisces, Cancer and Scorpio.

If you want to see all of the Tarot cards in the Cups suit, visit The Cups.

The Cups is the Tarot suit long connected with any issues of emotion. Ruled by water, feelings can run high when this suit makes an appearance.

When looking at the meaning of each Tarot card in the Cups suit, make note of what other suits are present. If there are also a lot of Coins or Wands, this indicates what is actually happening.

The presence of a number of Cups or Swords cards can suggest that this is more subjective, what the querent is feeling.

If you're just learning to read Tarot cards, use the position in the Tarot layout as well as the meanings to guide you. And never forget to listen to your gut instinct, even if it means the changing the official definition slightly.

Synopsis of the Sevens

Seven is the number of inward journeys, intuition and connecting with what is hidden.

When Seven is present, you will understand more about what you secretly want but also be urged to work hard to get it.

It is a number of progress and change but with these changes it is important to make certain what we want.

There is the danger that without the necessary effort, the reward of Seven will not last.

Upright Tarot Card Meaning:

When the Seven of Cups appears, it seems like you have many wonderful possibilities in your life

Now is not the time to act or try to pin them down. What you are seeing are beautiful illusions that need time and effort to become more concrete (or merely disappear).

Sometimes, the excitement of these choices can divide your energy and commitment - after all, why choose one when you can try to have them all.  Without that commitment and choice, it's hard for anything to pan out.

Whether  for relationship or career choices, look at all the options and wait a little longer.                        

Reversed Tarot Card Meaning:

A dreamy and hazy fantasy world exists within the Seven of Cups reversed. 

Reality is something you don't want to connect with - living in your dreams or clouding your thoughts with drugs or alcohol is much nicer.

You may be deceiving yourself with your relationships and need to search for reality rather than deluding yourself.  Sometimes what is real is not as pleasant as your fantasies, but reality is what grounds you.

Tarot Card Keywords:

choices, illusions, opportunity, fairy gold, wait and see, emotional choices,  deceptions, seeing only what you want to see, losing touch with reality, drugs, alcohol, self-creating fantasies.

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