Seven of Swords
Upright meaning
Secrecy, strategy, or acting alone. It can suggest discretion or avoiding an honest encounter; context matters.
Something to consider
Consider what you are keeping private and why. A careful plan can help, but avoiding an honest conversation may create more work later.
What is on your mind? Begin a reading →Historical texts
Waite: the card
A man in the act of carrying away five swords rapidly; the two others of the card remain stuck in the ground. A camp is close at hand.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Waite: divinatory meaning
Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence; also quarrelling, a plan that may fail, annoyance. The design is uncertain in its import, because the significations are widely at variance with each other.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Waite: reversed
Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Mathers: meaning
57. Seven of Swords.-Hope, Confidence, Desire, Attempt, Wish; R. Wise Advice, Good Counsel, Wisdom, Prudence, Circumspection.
Source: The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1888) · Public domain