The Rider-Waite version of these cards shows seven cups filled with different choices. These are temporary and not built on a solid foundation. The Seven of Cups warns not to give in to temptation, seduction, or addiction. The cups have multiple choices in them some of them not based in reality. The last cup holds a beautiful woman’s face, which represents the Empress, Venus and beauty. And of course, the Magicians magical figure 8 reminding us that the universe is really a gigantic infinity sign swing back and forth. This cup represents an ouroborus, which is a snake biting its own tail. The snake to the right of the veiled woman symbolizes mercury and the Magician. She is represented by the High Priestess because she is holding the veil between this world and the astral world. In the center is a figure with a white cloth draped over him/her. On the top shelf of the cloud, only three cups remain. Solar energy can bring forth life and fresh vegetation, but it can also burn and destroy. This brings us back to the Sun card and represents the solar energy. The fourth cup contains a dragon, which breaths fire like the sun. Saturn, the planet of limitation, can be used for good or for bad. Saturn is the planet the corresponds to the World card, but Capricorn is ruled by Saturn and The Devil is ruled by Capricorn. This cup mimics the World card and the circular wreath that encompasses completion. Laurel wreaths represent victory because the ancient Greeks would crown the victory with a wreath of laurel leaves. The next cup has a laurel wreath and a skeleton face. And indeed there is a fortune in that cup. Jupiter is represented by the Wheel of Fortune. This card is represented by Jupiter because he is the king of all kings and the planet of luck, royalty and abundance. The next cup is overflowing with jewels, which can represent hunting for that perfect treasure. The number 16 also reduces back to 7, so this is a perfect representation of the how the negative energies of the 7 of Cups can manifest. The Tower and this cup is represented by Mars, the planet of war and aggression. They built their tower so high that it ended up crashing to the ground. One of the cups contains a castle, which gives way to the idiom, “Building castles in the sky”, which is exactly what the people in the Tower card did. The fact that the cups are all in the sky, surrounded by puffy clouds suggest that all you know is up in the air, it’s in the sky, and it may very well be unobtainable. What can you find?Ī shadow figure that resembles a man stands with his back towards us facing the cups. The number seven can represent many things on an esoteric level: seven ancient planets, seven interior stars (chakras), the seven seals and seven trumpets in Revelations, and so on. The clouds hold seven cups all full of different items.
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