42-Seven of Chalices – Reversed Salem Deck

Your Chosen Card – Seven of Chalices Reversed Salem Deck

When reversed, the Seven of Cups suggests that you are in the process of resolving the confusion of the upright card and choosing realistically from among many possibilities. The period of daydreaming is over. Now is the time to plan your course of action with determination and take into account what you genuinely want to achieve. An opportunity may arise allowing you to deal with problems related to the misuse of drugs or alcohol.

Keywords Reversed: Escapism, wishful thinking, illusion, pipe dreams, unrealistic desires, confusion, uncertainty, lies, deceit, misuse of alcohol or drugs, intoxication, drunkenness, excessive sensuality.

Timing: 20 Scorpio–30 Scorpio. Tropical, 13 November–22 November. Sidereal, 6 December–15 December.
Astrology: Lovely and affectionate Venus (debilitated) in the third decan of watery Scorpio, realm of the Knight of Wands (Fire of Fire) and Death (Scorpio). Venus is linked to the Empress.
Number Symbolism: 7 – assessment, reevaluation, standing at a threshold, seeking advantage.

Etteilla: Ideas, thought, reflection, contemplation, deliberation, imagination, opinion, viewpoint, sentiment, mind, intelligence; (R) plans, intentions, projects, desire, will, resolution.

When Seven of Chalices is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If Seven of Chalices is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Seven of Chalices is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your reversed card reading for Seven of Chalices using cards from the Salem Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.


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Portable Magic
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Portable Magic: This set of correspondences has stood the test of time, and has much to recommend it. I have no hesitation in using it as the foundation for Tarot magic since I believe that it is, in the main, correct. However, it should not be regarded as perfect or unchangeable. Aleister Crowley did not think it so, even though he accepted the teachings of the Golden Dawn as a received higher wisdom. In his own work on the Tarot, The Book of Thoth, he made an inversion of the associations of the trump the Star with those of the trump the Emperor, to correct what he perceived as an imbalance in the Golden Dawn arrangement of correspondences. He did not take this step on his own authority, but followed the directive of his holy guardian angel, Aiwass, who made the statement in a work psychically received from the spirit by Crowley that ‘Tzaddi is not the Star’ (see Crowley, The Book of Thoth, 9; also his The Book of the Law, 26) .

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Reversed Cards: The Seven of Cups is challenging enough in the upright position, but here in the blocked aspect it only gets worse. It is good to have ideas, dreams, and wishes, but when we do nothing but stay inside our heads, we lose touch with the grounding action that is needed to bring all those wondrous images in our heads into the physical world. If you have received this card in the blocked aspect, you will find it very hard indeed to manifest anything right now, as you have deactivated the action part of the seven energy. Thoughts, feelings, and actions create tangible things. You need all the ingredients.

Tarot for Beginners: Reversed, this card may be revealing self-doubt, a lack of self-discipline, or some other weakness. You may be avoiding dealing with difficult emotions like anger and are therefore prevented from moving past an obstacle. The inclination to run away rather than risk confrontations will ultimately cause more harm than it’s worth. Alternatively, you may be being advised to curb baser instincts, such as overindulgence in food or drink.

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Reversed Cards: It may not seem like a positive thing to have the card of victory show up in the protection aspect, but it really is. When we are beginning a new cycle or project, sometimes it is best to keep things to ourselves. Even the good bits. Oftentimes it is to keep others from contaminating the energetic vortex we are creating, and other times it is because we are in the process of rebuilding our own reserves of self-esteem. If this card has shown up in the protection aspect, it is reminding you to not stop, not give up, and keep building on all the breakthroughs. Each step brings you closer to your dreams or goals.