all right so listen we're gonna move on to the seven of cups now when you talk about
the seven of cups in a traditional tarot card reading and again i'm using rider waite smith um
as the uh you know my my deck i use my deck to read ark animal tarot and oracle deck and um
but it is based on the rider waite smith tarot card system and so when the seven of cups comes
that that card is about dreams if you look at the um the symbolism of the card you'll see
this little boy standing in front of seven cups they've each got something coming out of them
and that's really all of your dreams you know how many dreams do you have you know everybody got to
have a dream and uh i don't remember what movie that's from but that's a great movie
uh and so i think it's trading places also a hilarious movie i watch it every christmas so um
it it can also be about deception we can get so carried away with this one thing that we don't get
what's what we really want what our dreams really are or why we really have those dreams now
remember that the cups is part of the minor arcana and the suit of cups symbolizes your emotion
it's the most immature of all of the suits right pentacles being the most mature because
pentacles is what brings in the earth air fire water spirit and blends it's a holistic card
right and then somewhere in the middle the bait the debate ranges you know the debate is is are
um our swords fire or are they air our wands fire or the air i don't get caught up in all
of that you decide for yourself and for me it's different in each reading but
what i know is that a whole bunch y'all in here
you needed this morning you needed the cart put in front of the horse because you needed to know
that whatever this is that you're concocting or dreaming up is gonna happen okay but the
seven of cups asks you to now put the horse in front of the cart because it's inverted now
overall the symbolism the tarot card meanings um of the seven of cups is that it's about passion
that gets your motor running right okay but you've got to use use it wisely or it'll
consume you it's like gasoline okay look you put a bunch of gas in your tank and it'll take you
from new york to philly and then you've got enough gas left to explore around this
around the city right great but you spill it on the ground and somebody likes a match and
it's over let me just say to you all spiritual workers light workers counselors
nurses massage people if they're not careful it's definitely counselors psychic you know anybody in
any kind of healing modality or anybody that is an empath which i might contend that every
single every single living thing is empathic it's just a degree to which that you are or you
want to be or you be open okay we'll get into that story another day that said um
you you you've got to be careful you cannot give water from an empty well and when that
well is empty it's the same as if somebody poured you out on the ground like gasoline
right that gasoline that you had that gas in there was fueling you fueling your fuel and fule
fueling you you overflowed now you're all deluded running around on the ground and somebody goes
case in point you know i know other readers don't share personal things i know that and
there are some people that have written me and said you know it's not really professional
to who here's why i think it's professional because i'm i'm no spiritual leader
at all i don't aim to be i don't intend to be i don't it's not what i claim it's not what i
do i'm just bernadette and i do the work that i do and i'm telling you ain't none of y'all ever made
a mistake that i probably hadn't made ain't none of y'all or some version of that mistake and and
and there are i believe spiritual leaders who truly have gone through this lifetime making a
lot less mistakes or less great choices less not great choices but they're few and far between
and most of us come to this work because we're wounded healers that's a fact we've been through
something traumatic probably a number of things traumatic whether self-created or whatever and you
wouldn't be doing this and so the desire to help others to help them learn to help them experience
the healing that you've man it can drain you right out to the point that yesterday and you know i
just feel like it's more relatable if i tell you all personal stuff so if it seems unprofessional i
got nothing it's what i do it's how i'm going to do things it is what it is yesterday i sat down
in my chair okay mind you it was my big comfy recliner i'm just going to take five minutes
i woke up at three o'clock in the morning three grabbed my dog crawled to bed thank goodness i set
my alarm oh wait my alarm is my cats i don't really have to set them 6 30 this morning they
woke me right up but yesterday i had just run out of gas so i'm telling you when i see this card
i always know that whatever the person is involved in they're fittin or they're about to or they are
have they've run out of gas so when this card is inverted there are a couple of things going
on here now again going back to the traditional tarot card meanings of the um the seven of cups
it's it's just a beautiful card it it ties in so perfectly and amazingly with these other two
cards for this reading today and again if you're watching this video and i'm recording this video
at six eight you know june 18th on 2021 it may be 2022 it might be 20 30 and you're watching this
video or beyond believe me you were supposed to see this at right this moment in your life
for whatever the reasons are it's meant to be you're supposed to take away from
it right meaning get the lessons get the get the call get the home and get the whatever okay
fantasies are not the same as dreams and so the seven of cups really asks you to
consider with whatever you've got rolling around in your head that makes you smile
or gasses you up revs your engine you know ignites your passions are they fantasies or
are they dreams and really the choice is yours the choice is yours as long as it stays in the light
don't make me go into an explanation about that i know you know what i mean as long as it stays
in the light now you didn't have all these static fantasies you want as long as they stay fantasies
case in point now i'm not a big sports fan but let's say i woke up tomorrow and said i
i really feel like i'm called to be a professional women's basketball player
i'm not rudy okay you know the movie rudy he wasn't the right size he didn't you know he didn't
whatever but he was a guy and he was the right age and whatever and he worked his patootie off
it's a true story and he became a football player it's what he wanted that's not a fantasy that's
somebody who's ready to do the work which is what this card means in this reading today because
remember for today the seven of cups came to you inverted we're going to get a little more about
that but if you're but if you're doing the uh i'm that's not going to happen it wouldn't matter how
much i practiced how much this i'm not ever going to become a professional female basketball player
for any myriad of reasons any myriad of the first of which starts with i'm a terrible
sports person now you give me a tetherball or a badminton i'm on it um on it anything else
it's a hot mess oh i'm a hot mess okay but the kabbalists called the seven of cups tarot card the
lord of illusory success and it's a and it's a double triple edge thing meaning
don't don't get caught up in what you think that you're being called to do that's really just a
fantasy but neither should you think that your dreams are just fantasies and not make them come
true that's the whole point of this card you've got to figure it out because that what you think
is a dream that's really a fantasy could turn into your biggest nightmare no joke i know people
that are in their 60s living in hollywood still living stories of how a studio stole their story
or so and so got a role over them when they were in their 20s it's 40 years later
get over it now those were not illusions that they had that's what they never got they had excuses
why they didn't make their dreams come true that's not an explanation an explanation is not the same
thing as an excuse it's just not so that's on them maybe somebody should have drawn the seven of cups
tarot card for them and if they were in the place to hear it now in this card venus and scorpio
again cups are about the emotions so in the seven of cups tarot card you've got venus and scorpio
and now that's infusing your consciousness with overpowering emotion excellent you ever wanted
something so bad you could literally taste it like literally that's the energy of this card
that is the energy of the seven of cups card now it might all end up being smoke and mirrors but
that's where you've got to make the decision you've got to get the download from the divine
right clouds on this card they symbolize divine communication you know in other in other cups
cards and all the other suits but in all the other suits in the suit of cups they warn of
illusion and deception so anytime you're working with any of the minor arcana the suit of cups any
clouds you see that could be warning you alerting you to self-deception don't do it now the cups on
the left are filled with symbols of like material things sex security wealth the ones on the right
in the seven of cups that's about your emotional needs knowledge power success safety whatever but
the cup in the center of the seven of cups is the most dangerous because that contains the illusions
of spiritual enlightenment the female figure in the cup is veiled very much like the high
priestess and the major arcana but her red aura shows she's only a projection of her own desires
there it's much easier than you think between determining between a real dream and an illusion
and in one of those ways is if it's still real it will be there tomorrow nothing will deter you
unless you just i love to live in fantasyland i fantasize every day that i have a bear sanctuary
and every day i'm surrounded by bears and bears and bears and bears and they're protected and
they're saved and they're you know living their life in ginormous enclosures where they're
free to roam for acres and acres and acres and you know and and one day when i'm 110 somebody
walks in is like where's bernadette and they find me you know dead in one of the fields
with the bears just sitting by me that's a fantasy i live every day it's not a reality
right okay it's not a reality now let me just say this i want to go back and i want to say
this again because this card is a very big deal about this the seven of cups the center of the
seven of cups is the most dangerous card of all it contains the illusion of spiritual enlightenment
okay you may think you're spiritually enlightened
but i find that many people in my experience in my reality that have thought they were spiritually
enlightened were actually very passive aggressive very passive aggressive and they would they would
use unbeknownst to them sometimes most of the time they would use what they think is their heightened
sense of spirituality they're at a higher level than you are so they're going to
talk to you in very simple spiritual terms like let me think for a minute um
let's say you're talking about something that's come up in your friendship
and they say something like um i can see you're very triggered by this
i can see this makes you angry because of x y and z so i hope that what i'm about to say will help
you know soothe that anger or this and this and they come out with some kind of spiritual anything
you have no idea what triggered me no you don't i'm not there for a psychic reading we're having
to we're having a discussion you don't know what triggered me or why how about you ask me before
you pass judgment on it and i didn't ask you for a healing i didn't ask you to mend anything on me
how about you ask me before you hand me your lofty spiritual opinion how about we're supposed to be
having a mediation a conversation between people okay here's my other favorite this is my biggest
favorite you tell somebody something you're angry with or that hurt your feelings and they say how
how how can we heal this together that's that's your first reaction my next question always is
can you see what i'm talking about that blows their minds can you understand can you receive
your actions in this moment seemed this way did that is that what you intended they won't answer
because if they answer they've gotta they've gotta look at their demons
they don't answer they'll simply come back with what can i do to make this right nothing unless
you think something has to be made right do you think something well you're angry or you're
hurt so of course something has to be made right okay can you identify what has to be made right
it's it's such a circular thing after a while even with my closest friends i'm
like okay we're done here i love you no matter what just don't do it again what does that mean
nothing nothing nothing they don't even know what they did the first time
right they don't even know what they did the first time and i don't even know that i was
feeling the right way because it matters to me what their intention was i don't care what
anybody says or done what was your intention what was your intention that's me you may
have something different but i'm telling you now this card is a big deal about that now inverted
the seven of cups tarot card its meanings and symbolism and omens and you know whatever
all the dreams that you have all the fantasies that are you have they're pouring out into the
world to take physical form now that could be cool for some fantasies and that could be great
for some dreams but also they those though like think of it like bubble bath right like they're
pouring out of the world like bubble bath and that bubble bath can either transform you or the
bubbles can dissipate like they were never there so how how that will manifest in your life is once
once this card comes inverted and that's why the beaver wanted to be the seven of cups because
a beaver only works at what benefits them they're not out you know they're of course
they're floating around and they're having fun in their rivers and with their families
and this and that but when it comes down to work that's why they call it busy as beaver
and so when you're when this card shows up for people and it's inverted i know that whatever
their dreams are are desperately trying to work through them because remember now you're the
sacred vessel you are the cup in the in in the suit of cups it doesn't matter whatever
other symbolism is in that tarot card you're the you're the cup and that sacred mission that dream
that whatever is trying to flow through you to pour out of you to take root in this world
and you're off doing other things but a beaver can't do that because if a beaver
did that a beaver would be building their dam and they'd have no place safe to stay
that's not good and let me just say this about safety okay
pardon me readings man they light me up it is
i i'm just gonna say it
the you can't know what it's like to grow up a poor child well you might know it's like but in
the south and your mom was divorced and you were up in the deep south and then you start telling
people you want to go to hollywood and be an actress and you're fat and you've got crappy
clothes and your hair is always a hot mess and you've got cystic acne yeah that was me
and now i'm telling people i want to be an actress okay can you imagine the ridicule can you imagine
fortunately for me all it did was piss me off ooh that disturbed the demons of this triple scorpio
but that was on the outside on the inside i really thought they were right
and i had no confidence in myself i didn't believe i didn't this i didn't that and a number of things
changed in my life to convince me differently and i went on to live very much of my original
dream and i will be grateful for that every day in every way especially to my own spirit and that
is what the seven of cups within its inverted it is asking you it is showing you it is pretending
it is prognosticating it is giving you the only that when you know what your real dream is you've
got the enormous reservoirs of energy inside of you you may not even have known they were there