Oct 16, 2026 · 45 min · 13 segments
A tarot reading on self-possession, bringing your own carrots, and how to let a little meaning in. Shout out to Dolly. Contact me via your favorite social media or bradwkellyATgmail with TAROT in the…
Anyway, the first card is what I call the crux, and this is the sort of central narrative germ which the rest of the reading is going to be about.
I like to describe tarot as me telling you a story about you, right? [chuckles] And, uh, this would be the, the, uh, inciting incident perhaps of, of this question, re-related to this question that you have.
His back is to us, and he's looking at this... or she, I suppose, is looking at this whole array of options, all of these cups, each, each of them filled with some different thing, some different dream object.
And all of the cups are afloat this kind of cloud, right? Now, we can say a lot of things about this card, and it's one of-- some of the most-- the richest imagery in the deck, in my opinion.
Uh, and a real simple reading of this would be that we are, at the moment, uh, paralyzed by options.
I'm also, uh, I also think in this case, Seven of Cups, about the sort of different channels that we all have in terms of this incentive.
You've probably, if you've listened to more than one of these, you've probably heard me say this.
One way to think about the cup, especially a-as a symbol, especially in this kind of, uh, for lack of a better term, sort of self-improvement sort of tarot, right? This kind of thing where we're not necessarily plundering the mysteries of the cosmos, but we're trying to f- we're trying to apply these things practically to us in the everyday.
We can think of the cups as being a hole in us, and we've all heard this term, you know, people have a hole in their heart, and they're trying to fill it with gambling or women or, or alcohol or men or whatever, right? And we're trying to fill this thing with this, and it, and it doesn't, it doesn't sort of work.
The Seven of Cups depicts Maybe not an exhaustive list, but picks seven of the different kinds of things that people fill their hole with, [chuckles] right? The different things that we put in this space to make our life feel like it's full and complete.
And as examples here, we have, um, uh, riches, right? A whole pile of just treasures or material, material goods.
Um, in another one, we have a, you know, a beautiful woman, um, that could be a kind of a, a lust thing.
In one, we have this sort of mountaintop retreat, which we might interpret as, like, monk-like solitude, right? But I think everybody has that desire to sort of get away from everything, right? To just abandon ship, and I'm just gonna go live out in the woods.
I think for our reading in th-this card, it's worth thinking about the options that are presented to us, the way in which we decide between these options, and realize that we're not-- we can't have everything.
We can have anything we want perhaps, but we can't have everything that we want, and that is a difficult decision to make in the modern era.
Anyway, the first card is what I call the crux, and this is the sort of central narrative germ which the rest of the reading is going to be about.
I like to describe tarot as me telling you a story about you, right? [chuckles] And, uh, this would be the, the, uh, inciting incident perhaps of, of this question, re-related to this question that you have.
His back is to us, and he's looking at this... or she, I suppose, is looking at this whole array of options, all of these cups, each, each of them filled with some different thing, some different dream object.
And all of the cups are afloat this kind of cloud, right? Now, we can say a lot of things about this card, and it's one of-- some of the most-- the richest imagery in the deck, in my opinion.
Uh, and a real simple reading of this would be that we are, at the moment, uh, paralyzed by options.
I'm also, uh, I also think in this case, Seven of Cups, about the sort of different channels that we all have in terms of this incentive.
You've probably, if you've listened to more than one of these, you've probably heard me say this.
One way to think about the cup, especially a-as a symbol, especially in this kind of, uh, for lack of a better term, sort of self-improvement sort of tarot, right? This kind of thing where we're not necessarily plundering the mysteries of the cosmos, but we're trying to f- we're trying to apply these things practically to us in the everyday.
We can think of the cups as being a hole in us, and we've all heard this term, you know, people have a hole in their heart, and they're trying to fill it with gambling or women or, or alcohol or men or whatever, right? And we're trying to fill this thing with this, and it, and it doesn't, it doesn't sort of work.
The Seven of Cups depicts Maybe not an exhaustive list, but picks seven of the different kinds of things that people fill their hole with, [chuckles] right? The different things that we put in this space to make our life feel like it's full and complete.
And as examples here, we have, um, uh, riches, right? A whole pile of just treasures or material, material goods.
Um, in another one, we have a, you know, a beautiful woman, um, that could be a kind of a, a lust thing.
In one, we have this sort of mountaintop retreat, which we might interpret as, like, monk-like solitude, right? But I think everybody has that desire to sort of get away from everything, right? To just abandon ship, and I'm just gonna go live out in the woods.
I think for our reading in th-this card, it's worth thinking about the options that are presented to us, the way in which we decide between these options, and realize that we're not-- we can't have everything.
We can have anything we want perhaps, but we can't have everything that we want, and that is a difficult decision to make in the modern era.
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