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Seven of Cupsfor Scorpio · Work and Career

Seven of Cups tarot card

"Choices isn't the question. What you do next is."

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On the card

A lucky card, tied to the dream world. A figure looks at all the future possibilities caught up in the bounty. Fantasy, romance, passion, power, anything is possible

Upright
ChoicesFantasyIllusionImagination

You are in the part of your journey where the world is open, you are being called to dream; lean into your own fantasies and dream big. Romantically there's lots of passion and lots of options. If you are building a company you are in the dreaming phase where (in your head) the customers are plentiful, the money is lucrative and the community is thriving. Let this phase of inspiration guide you and take notes. The next step is building on what you've dreamed, but for now enjoy the possibilities before you.

Reversed

The mania of daydreaming has set in and your dreamworld is bleeding into reality, keep your wits about you. Things that are too good to be true are often... not true (even the things you tell yourself). You have the ability to tell the difference, but it's murky right now.

Its place in the deck.

Minor ArcanaNumber card
One of the 56 Minor Arcana. They are about what is happening in ordinary life right now. Each belongs to one of four suits, numbered Ace to Ten, plus four court cards.
SuitCups · Water
Cups are the suit of Water: feeling and attachment. A Cups card is always, underneath, about what you feel and who you are attached to.
NumberSeven
The numbers tell a story inside each suit, from a seed at the Ace to the full expression at Ten. Seven is the private reckoning: assessment done alone, where self-deception is easiest.

Where it shows up.

In the stars
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WaterElement
Feelings, relationships, and intuition. In tarot: Cups.
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Seven of Cups for Scorpio in Work and Career

The Transformer

Cups are the water suit, so the Seven of Cups sits in Scorpio. That makes this Scorpio's own card, so nothing in it is being read from the outside, and the flattering interpretation is the one to distrust. What it asks for is the thing Scorpio already believes it is good at: say the feeling to the person it is about. Upright, the assessment is being made alone, which is where it is easiest to be wrong.

When reading about work through a Scorpio lens, the Seven of Cups says that you feel like work is where you need to know the financial truth before anyone else does, a problem to solve (or a power to hold), and something you will not announce until you are certain. This has either led to you becoming the person who understands the money and the leverage, or to you refusing to enter the room where decisions are made. You have not asked yourself what you actually want from this work, only what you think you should want from it. The Scorpio blind spot in it is the feeling of being fooled, or of being seen as naive, or of depending on someone who will leave.

In practice that can look like a resentment that has to be said out loud. Whatever form it takes, it is being weighed alone, where it is easiest to lie to yourself.

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