What does Seven of Cups mean for money and finances?

Get-rich schemes and financial fantasy. Do the arithmetic before believing the pitch.

The card is associated with the opportunity that is explained rather than documented, and with returns described in a conversation rather than written down. The seven cups are a good picture of a portfolio of intentions.

Its one instruction is worth repeating plainly: anything that cannot survive a spreadsheet was never an investment.

Choice overload, wishful thinking, illusion. Options that look better than they are, with one that is genuinely good hidden among them.

The hidden good option matters. This is not a card that says everything on offer is worthless; it says the presentation is unreliable and the sorting has not been done.

In an advice position it asks for something specific and dull: investigate one of them properly rather than imagining all seven. The card is quite clear that the imagining is the pleasurable part and the reason nothing progresses.

Clarity arriving. Cutting through to the real option and committing to it, usually with some relief.

Or, less happily, retreating into fantasy entirely, where the options have stopped being candidates and become a place to live.

The useful test the tradition offers is time. A choice that has been open for a long time is not being considered, and the card reversed is often the point at which somebody notices how long it has been.

Upright: choices, illusion, fantasy, overwhelm, wishful thinking

Reversed: clarity, commitment, disillusion, escapism

• Which of these options would I still want if nobody knew I had chosen it?
• What am I imagining rather than investigating?