tarot card meanings · minor arcana · cups

seven of cups tarot card, original ink-line art

seven of cups — tarot card meaning

Castles in the clouds; options that multiply while nothing is chosen.

reversed

The fog clears; one cup chosen and the rest released.

two philosophical anchors, cited

Fantasy versus deliberation · Epictetus, Discourses 2.18 (tr. Long)

“Appearances, wait for me a little: let me see who you are, and what you are about.”

The five colors blind the eye · Daodejing, ch. 12 · after Legge

“Color's five hues make the eyes blind - abundance of appearance starves choice.”

the question we would ask

Which one of these seven futures would you still want if you had to build it by hand?

how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.