Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot · The Self
Tarot · Suit of Cups
Seven of Cups
Illusion and the Labyrinth of Choices
The dazzling and deceptive realm of the imagination, where myriad desires cloud spiritual discernment.
What it meansSeven cups rise on cloud, holding a face, a shrouded figure, a serpent, a castle, jewels, a wreath and a dragon. Waite calls them reflections. Not one of them is a thing in the world, and the card's warning is that desire renders its objects beautifully.
Tarot · Suit of Cups
Ten of Cups
Divine Harmony and Wholeness
Lasting emotional fulfillment, family harmony, and peaceful domestic joy shared with loved ones.
What it meansThe ten cups are in a rainbow, which is a sign in the sky and not a possession. The family below it is dancing with their backs to us. Read as the completion of the suit: feeling arrived at its natural end, which is other people, and held only as long as the light lasts.
Tarot · Major Arcana
The Chariot
Willpower, Direction, and Victory
Opposing forces held to one direction by will alone — the ego's triumph, and its aggression.
What it meansThe sphinxes are black and white and pull opposite ways, and the charioteer holds no reins. He governs by attention alone. The victory is not over an enemy but over a contradiction he refuses to resolve — he drives both, and stops driving the moment he looks away.
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