There are some cards
I think of as more typically New York than other places, that I see more here
than I have previously – of course it might be a more second millennium kind of
card too, as I have been reading here for the past 10 years. My next few posts
will be about these cards.
I’ll start with the Seven of Cups.
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| 7 cups, Rider Waite deck |
The seven of cups is
about having choice, but instead of
feeling empowered, “I have all these
options!” the drawer feels overwhelmed, “I
have all these options but can only chose one…”
and there are consequences, seen
and otherwise, of each choice. So now I
stand paralyzed (or crouch if you are looking at the beautiful card
below!) not knowing which cup to
select, which cup to let go of.
I find that New York
in particular has this obsession with keeping options open. But what I tell people is that after a while,
making no decision becomes its own decision, and some of these cups will
naturally disappear if they are not chosen. Some may go for a short time, some
may go forever, that is life. But
choosing a cup, finding a direction, even if it not the ultimate direction but
merely a side path, gives life
energy.
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| 7 of cups, Klimpt deck |
People often say to
me that they don’t want to have regrets.
I think standing paralyzed and not choosing creates a regret of its own.
So my other answer is that regrets are not cancer (unless we make them so.) Regrets are risks that don’t pay off in the
short term in the way that we had hoped.
And even if they make it to the long term (I will always regret not
buying New York real estate when we arrived in 2002!) it doesn't mean that we
should not act. It just means that we
lived and learnt.
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| 7 of cups, urban tarot deck |
So these Seven of cups
remind us to make a choice and live with it, and if it doesn't pan out the way
we had hoped, then we will course correct and make another one…
