Seven of Cups: tarot meaning, upright and reversed

Seven cups hold alluring and unsettling visions within a cloud.

Upright

imagination · choices

Many appealing possibilities require discrimination before commitment.

Reversed

clarification · disillusion

A fantasy may lose its hold as a practical choice becomes clearer.

In a reading

The position gives this card a particular task: a description of the situation, a challenge, or guidance. Read its image and meaning alongside the other cards and the question that brought them together.

Golden Dawn correspondence

Venus in Scorpio, 20–30 degrees. This is the attribution in Book T.

Sources

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot. These notes are original interpretations of the Waite–Smith imagery, informed by that text.