Two cards in conversation

Seven of Cups + Page of Cups

People often bring two cards with a question about what will happen. Olivia reads a pair as a conversation instead: what each card brings, and what appears between them.

  • The same suit

Five ways to read this pair

Try one lens at a time. Write a sentence for each before you read anyone else’s version.

  1. Story

    Read Seven of Cups first, then Page of Cups, as two scenes of one story. What changes between them?

  2. Contrast

    Where do Seven of Cups and Page of Cups pull in different directions, and what does each ask of you?

  3. One colours the other

    Let Page of Cups describe the way of Seven of Cups, as an adjective describes a noun. Then swap them.

  4. A shared symbol

    No carved symbol is shared here. Look for a gesture, a direction or a colour the two images have in common.

  5. Number, suit and element

    Both are Cups: two steps of one suit. Which comes first in the sequence, and what lies between them?

One reader’s version

The Seven of Cups offers many visions at once, while the Page looks into a single bowl. Together they ask which imaginative image is a message worth following and which is a pleasant distraction from the day.

Written for the page of Page of Cups