Two cards in conversation

The Moon + Seven 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.

  • A Major and a Minor

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

  2. Contrast

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

  3. One colours the other

    Let Seven of Cups describe the way of The Moon, 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

    A Major and a Minor: the Major can name the theme, the Minor shows where it turns up in ordinary days.

One reader’s version

The Moon and the Seven of Cups both show imagination under night light, where shapes are not quite what they seem. Together they turn attention to feelings that need time and daylight before you act on them.

Written for the page of Seven of Cups