1. Tarot
2. Card meanings
3. Seven of Cups

Minor Arcana · Cups

Seven of Cups

• imagination
• images of reflection
• sentiment

Upright meaning

Many images, few certainties. Waite reads imagination and things seen in the glass of contemplation, nothing yet permanent.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, Waite gives desire, will, determination and project: choosing one dream and working on it.

• desire
• will
• determination
• project

Symbolism

Seven cups float in a cloud, each holding a different strange vision.

Group

Minor Arcana · Cups

Element, astrology

Not given by Waite, so we give none

Source

Our own plain-English summary of A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1911), Part III §2 (The Lesser Arcana). The keywords are Waite’s own words. Waite’s fortune-telling lists also contain harsher terms; we keep to the reflective readings he gives and never state an event as certain.

Tarot is a tool for reflection, not a prediction of fixed outcomes. This is not medical, legal or financial advice.