Tarot Talk: Seven of Cups
Welcome back to Tarot Talk, where I essentially give a bit of a nuanced take on the traditional tarot meanings. Remember these are just my interpretation and are not laws so you’re allowed to take em or leave em if they don’t serve their intended purpose of helping you further your understanding. If you want more hands on practice with interpretations feel free to book a few Witch Talk sessions to have some target practice tailored to your strengths and struggles.
Moving right along, the card we’re discussing as proclaimed by the title is the Seven of Cups! (Queue to applause). Typically this card speaks of variety and having multiple options; The potential of everything. Either way its comes down to not being certain.
What I’d like to raise is all of the things that comes with that. This is a card that insinuates “analysis paralysis” having so many potential options with none being overtly “wrong/bad” (i.e. a clear ‘Not that!’) that you become too overwhelmed to make a choice. Other times this card can speak to being conflicted; Having many emotions come up at once that you’re not sure which one you should validate.
Most of the angst this card brings circles around clients feeling like “I don’t wanna choose the wrong thing!” when wrong is subjective. If you’ve ever read with me you know my main aim is to remind people where they have leverage which is in the present — the choices you have decided or have chosen not to do. What that looks like after the 7 of Cups shows up is taking querent off the tight rope they’ve unintentionally put themselves on.
When everything seems a little too possible or emotions are pulling every which way the answer is in what is the loudest in your heart. The opposite of paralysis is action. If it is various opportunities then moving forward I suggest you walk the route you are most curious or excited about. Tune into the story of the emotion that is most intense. Not to cast aside every other route or emotion, but just because humans can only attend to one task at a time neurologically. Just like driving there will be yellow and red lights and when you feel momentarily halted is when you get a chance to attend to another option. We don’t choose one cup and say fuck the others, we have our full of one giving it proper consideration and attention before following through with the next. Diminish the fear of permanence and FOMO.
As always, I hope this was helpful to those who stopped to read. Feel free to share your own nuance interpretations on our 7 of cups! Tell the next time.
