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Seven of Cups Tarot Card Meaning
The Seven of Cups tarot card means choices, daydreams and illusion. Many options, some illusions.
Upright
- Choices
- daydreams
- illusion
Reversed
- Clarity
- a decision made
- seeing through it
Yes or no
Maybe
The Seven of Cups is one of the 14 cards in the suit of Cups. Cups are the suit of water: feelings, love, friendship and intuition.
What the card shows
A shadowed figure faces seven cups floating on a cloud. They hold a head, a veiled glowing figure, a snake, a castle, a heap of jewels, a laurel wreath and a dragon.
This is the card as drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which is in the public domain.
Upright meaning
The Seven of Cups is read as too many choices, and not all of them real. It points to daydreams, wishful thinking and temptation, and asks you to pick one thing and check it is solid.
Seven of Cups reversed
Reversed, it is read as the fog clearing, a firm decision, or seeing which options were fantasy.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, the Seven of Cups is usually read as a maybe: the answer depends on something not settled yet. Readers differ on some cards, so treat this as one common reading. You can ask a yes or no question and draw a card for it.
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