1Nine cups lined up behind him and his arms folded in front.
2There’s an alternative reading: he’s a barkeep, deciding who and what gets these cups.
3That turns it into a card about allocating rather than receiving.
The Barkeep CardHe isn’t receiving the wish. He’s deciding who gets the cups.
- Wish fulfillment
- The wish card
- Deciding who gets the cups
In a reading
The wish card. Something you’ve wanted is on the table.
Deeper meaning
He’s a barkeep
This is the wish card, and I say that fast because it’s what it is nearly every time. Wish fulfillment. The reading almost nobody gives it, and the one I’d keep, is that he’s a barkeep and he’s the one deciding who and what gets these cups. That flips the card completely. It stops being about a wish being granted to you and becomes about you deciding what you’re pouring for, and who you’re pouring it for. There’s real agency in that version, and if this card keeps turning up for you try it on.
In the good stuff
The wish is arriving, and you’re the one deciding who gets a cup.