The Seven of Cups completes the Scorpio decans in the water suit's zodiacal sequence, falling under Venus and carrying the Golden Dawn title Illusionary Success, which the Thoth deck renders more bluntly as Debauch, one of the harsher small-card titles in Book T's scheme.
Pamela Colman Smith's picture is unusually crowded for a Rider-Waite-Smith pip, seven distinct visions arranged in a cloud, a jewel, a laurel wreath, a dragon, a fortified castle, a shrouded glowing figure and a serpent among the more commonly listed contents, though published descriptions of the seventh cup's contents vary somewhat between sources. No Marseille equivalent exists; that pattern's Seven of Cups is seven plain cups in a lattice, and a cartomancer working it would have no visions to interpret at all, only a number.
Waite's own commentary treats the multiplicity of the cups as the entire point, fantasy read not as a single image but as a superabundance of images, none of them clearly real, and the resulting choice paralysis is closer to what the Golden Dawn's Illusionary Success title describes than the more sweeping vice implied by Crowley's Debauch. The Thoth card itself abandons the cloud of visions for a geometric arrangement of lotus-cups arrayed around a Venus glyph, consistent with Harris's usual method, and Crowley's accompanying text leans into moral corruption and dissolution rather than into Waite's gentler reading of simple wishful thinking.