Seven of Cups
The Seven of Cups warns against mistaking wishful thinking for reality, indicating confusion, indecision, and temptation. It highlights misconceptions, false choices, and transient or deceptive hopes that cloud judgment. The card advises caution: avoid rushing decisions, explore other options, and wait for the truth to reveal itself. Clinging to imagined outcomes worsens consequences, while the reversed position signals shattered illusions and a painful confrontation with reality, often prompting attempts to correct past mistakes.
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Upright
When this card appears, someone is mistaking wishful thinking for reality, and running away from the truth. Misconceptions about the real state of affairs, deceitful hopes. Uncertainty, lack of stability and transient results. Confusion and inability to make up your mind, to make a decision. Temptation, deception. False choice, imaginary success.
Card's advice
Even if it seems that you've considered all the options, don't rush to make a decision. Try to find other solutions. Wait a little bit until the truth fully reveals itself.
The warning
By clinging to ideas of things that don't actually exist, you are just worsening the consequences.
Reverse
Shattered illusions. Confrontation with reality (often a painful one). Revealing the truth, a fair outlook on the world. Consequences of making the wrong choice and an attempt to correct the mistake.
Quick Answer
Everything is still vague, there's no certainty.
Visual Description
A large sculpted head with blank white eyes and a third eye on the forehead fills the center of the image. Four ethereal women in flowing dresses surround the head, each holding or pouring from a cup toward the forehead or into a central chalice beneath. The Roman numeral VII is shown at the top and a banner with Cyrillic text and a green cup bearing a fish sits at the bottom.
Old Style tarot
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