Seven of Cups

Fairy favoursImages of reflectionSentimentImagination

Upright

Fairy favours, images of reflection, sentiment, imagination, things seen in the glass of contemplation; some attainment in these degrees, but nothing permanent or substantial is suggested.

Reversed

Desire, will, determination, project.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

The picture

Strange chalices of vision, but the images are more especially those of the fantastic spirit.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

Older readings

Fair child; idea, design, resolve, movement. Reversed: Success, if accompanied by the Three of Cups.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §4. Waite collected these and says they often disagree with the main meanings.

Waite wrote in 1911 and some of his meanings show it. Tarot is a tradition of reflection, not a prediction, and no card decides anything for you.