Seven of Cups: tarot card meaning

Seven of Cups is card 7 in the suit of Cups, associated with the element of Water. Drawn upright it speaks of a stance, feelings, connection; reversed, of feeling blocked, disconnection.

Upright meaning

a stance, feelings, connection

Choices and fancies competing for attention -- many cups, not all of them real; sort the vision from the fantasy.

Reversed meaning

feeling blocked, disconnection

A clearer head cutting through illusion -- you are beginning to tell the valuable option from the daydream.

The suit of Cups belongs to Water and to feelings, relationships and belonging.

In a three-card reading

In the past position Seven of Cups describes the current that carried you to where you are; in the present position, what is most alive in the situation now; in the future position, the direction things tend toward if nothing changes. A reading weighs it against the other two cards rather than on its own.