kingtycoon | Mindless Diversions and Everything for Nothing The 7 of Cups (Reply)

This is a picture that wasn't easy, it wasn't an easy concept to work out. I mean - I knew it was about gambling, and I knew it was about reckless, pointless gambling, but I wasn't quite sure how it'd play out.

Okay - so here's your useful background when it comes to interpreting this idea and these symbols as well as my interpretation.

The 7 of cups is symbolic of idle fantasy - which you may suppose to be a tricky subject for me. The trick here though, is that the 7 of cups means all the things you idly wish for, the things you'd have if you won the lottery, the THINGS that'd be nice to have, sure, but that, when it comes down to it, you're not gonna kill yourself to get, heck you're not even gonna try very hard at all.

You're going to idly wish, mindlessly dream. See - this is a concept I have a lot of trouble with. You know it, and I know it - I'm a dreamer, aimless too, sometimes! Sometimes, I'll admit it. But... There's an element of nuance here that I'll try and deal with. There are many cards and many yet to come - appearances of repetition are a failure on my part-- because the nuance is important. And it's important in painting these that I address who I am, aspects of myself- this is half the journey. Maybe more. I thought and thought about the 7 of cups. In other decks you'll see 7 cups in the sky with a bunch of stuff in them.

Stuff- symbols that I decided to just put in words. Tower = security, Head = wisdom. Blah & Blah. I don't know that that tier of encipherment is all that needful, and I know I don't want to really put that much effort into this card - because of... Disdain.

I really did have considerations about this one. And I'll tell you - I do try and put myself into a mindset, a point of reference when I make these things. The referent position for this card is: Achievement without Effort. This is...I hate that.

Not that I have ill will to the people who come by what they have without really trying, that's... fine, good for you man. But I do have a hostility to a tendency in me - to be just idly hoping for some break. Effort. You have to try. I'm a believer in trying, I am constantly trying. That's my thing, effort.

But you know the Stuff- the idly wished for things- they'll tell you straightout that they're not exactly worth the effort. You know what I want? A million dollars, maybe you can't sleep and just idly imagine what you'd do with a million dollars. That's what this card is about. Now maybe you're trying to sleep and you think about how you can make a million dollars - that's the opposite of this card. That's someone who knows what they want and try to think of how to get it. The Stuff in the 7 cups is all stuff you kind of idly want,kind of the default setting for vain human wishes.

Love, Winning, Money, you want to be smart, you want to be safe, you want your enemies to suffer - but you don't really want to do anything about that. You don't want take risks or make any real effort -

You want to gamble little and get a lot.
You want to play the lottery.
People know I hate gambling. People know I play the lottery. You know what? It costs a dollar and somebody wins it. That's just the facts. Spend a buck for a chance at not having to really think about money? That's fine - it's... it's not the stupidest thing you can do with a dollar. But I will say - I think it's terrible that the state does this to people, I think it's just awful. There aughtn't be lotteries. Or casinos or stock markets for that matter. I hate gambling. And generally because it fosters this atavistic desire for just basic, tawdry wishes. I think about the efforts I make, the work that I do, and I am trying to make and do something and that something is really - really just none of these. It's more personal and more real.

I'm saying - when you are not feeling validated and respected and you are feeling poor or like a looser or stupid - whatever. Are you making a serious effort not to be? Are you really, really trying to change this? Or are you idly wishing for something everyone wants and nobody has enough of?

There are like, hundreds of videos returned from the query 'without effort' and they're all gross.