To feel victory (to feel the sensation of 'solidness through mastery') in the suit of cups – also recognized as the “realm of water” and, by another name, as the “world of feeling” – is to deeply feel (then, to understand) the one feeling which has the force to launch a 1,000 ships, move mountains and/or bring about our ruination. This, of course, is our feeling of desire. Once you truly understand the way in which desire works, and what it brings about, you then have a choice of either using its force (and paying its price) or detaching from it.
What needs to be truly felt and understood about our feeling of desire is that when this particular and forceful feeling becomes sufficiently aroused we, in turn, become shaped by that which has caused its arousal. How does this happen?
How does desiring:
position
riches
conquest
adventure
eros
knowledge
agape
deeply enough, strongly enough and with enough focus cause us to become shaped by these classic sources of arousal?
It's because to be shaped by that which arouses our desire requires us to pour ourselves into that very thing. Once our feeling of desire has been aroused, it is the feeling of desire itself which leads us (with greater or with lesser success, depending upon our given capacity to feel desire) to conform to the shape of that which has aroused it. For this is what we most desire to do!
In other words, it is our feeling of desire which focuses our attention, and our energy, to such an extent we are able to actually penetrate that which has aroused us and (once inside and through our feeling faculty) gain intimate knowledge of that which has caused our desire to be piqued.
This, if you think about it, can naturally lead you to wonder if assuming the shape of:
agape
knowledge
eros
adventure
conquest
riches
position
is a "good thing" or a "bad thing".
The Seven of Cups tells us it is neither one, nor the other. It only tells us feeling and understanding desire is a real, necessary - and therefore worthy - aspect of the "world of feeling" (The Suit of Cups). But it isn't our final destination in this watery realm. It's only a stopping place on our journey along the path from the top (Ace/Crown) to the bottom (Ten/Kingdom) of this suit - after which we will be prepared to meet its royal inhabitants (The Page, The Knight, The Queen and The King).
So, fellow travellers in this elemental realm of water, rest assured there is more to feel (and therefore understand) about our feelings, further along. But not a lot further for, after all, we have now reached the seventh level of descension into this particular suit of the tarot.
What needs to be truly felt and understood about our feeling of desire is that when this particular and forceful feeling becomes sufficiently aroused we, in turn, become shaped by that which has caused its arousal. How does this happen?
How does desiring:
position
riches
conquest
adventure
eros
knowledge
agape
deeply enough, strongly enough and with enough focus cause us to become shaped by these classic sources of arousal?
It's because to be shaped by that which arouses our desire requires us to pour ourselves into that very thing. Once our feeling of desire has been aroused, it is the feeling of desire itself which leads us (with greater or with lesser success, depending upon our given capacity to feel desire) to conform to the shape of that which has aroused it. For this is what we most desire to do!
In other words, it is our feeling of desire which focuses our attention, and our energy, to such an extent we are able to actually penetrate that which has aroused us and (once inside and through our feeling faculty) gain intimate knowledge of that which has caused our desire to be piqued.
This, if you think about it, can naturally lead you to wonder if assuming the shape of:
agape
knowledge
eros
adventure
conquest
riches
position
is a "good thing" or a "bad thing".
The Seven of Cups tells us it is neither one, nor the other. It only tells us feeling and understanding desire is a real, necessary - and therefore worthy - aspect of the "world of feeling" (The Suit of Cups). But it isn't our final destination in this watery realm. It's only a stopping place on our journey along the path from the top (Ace/Crown) to the bottom (Ten/Kingdom) of this suit - after which we will be prepared to meet its royal inhabitants (The Page, The Knight, The Queen and The King).
So, fellow travellers in this elemental realm of water, rest assured there is more to feel (and therefore understand) about our feelings, further along. But not a lot further for, after all, we have now reached the seventh level of descension into this particular suit of the tarot.
PLEASE NOTE: This interpretation is based purely on the feelings I experience when I focus on, and merge with, the images in the card combined with how I understand the Minor Arcana of the Rider-Waite deck dovetails with the Tree of Life in the Qabalah (as taught by Wald and Ruth Ann Amberstone, co-founders of The Tarot School in New York City, NY).
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