Western Tarot symbolism
Seven of Cups
The prose describes strange chalices of vision and images belonging to a fantastic spirit. It associates them with reflection and contemplation but says no permanent or substantial attainment is suggested. The main reversed list supplies will and determination. The additional list includes idea, design and movement, and makes reversed success conditional on the Three of Cups appearing with it.
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The card account
LiteraryThe prose describes strange chalices of vision and images belonging to a fantastic spirit. It associates them with reflection and contemplation but says no permanent or substantial attainment is suggested.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe main reversed list supplies will and determination. The additional list includes idea, design and movement, and makes reversed success conditional on the Three of Cups appearing with it.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. This entry follows that supplied edition’s card prose and supplementary lists. Historical divinatory assignments and period character labels are distinguished from the pictured symbolism and from independently supported judgements about people or future events.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Strange chalices of vision, but the images are more especialH those of the fantastic spirit. Divinatory Meanings: Fairy favors, images of reflection, sentiment, imagination, things seenOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; card description, active reader leaf 113
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0113
- Original scan leaf
- 119
- Recorded leaf number
- 119
- Current Reader position
- 113
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Seven.—Fair child; idea, design, resolve, movement. Reversed: Success, if accompanied by the Three of Cups. 5'/'.r.^ Pleasant memories. Reversed: Inheritance to fall in quickly. Five.—Generally favorableOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; additional meanings, active reader leaf 151
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0151
- Original scan leaf
- 157
- Recorded leaf number
- 157
- Current Reader position
- 151
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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