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Seven of Swords Tarot Card Meaning

Seven of Swords belongs to the suit of Swords — the air suit of the mind, truth and conflict. Upright it speaks of strategy, stealth, cunning; reversed, of confession, coming clean. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's archetype and its astrological correspondence.

Seven of Swords tarot card — hand-illustrated Lunara deck
Minor Arcana · SwordsAirMoon in Aquarius

Upright 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”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: strategy, stealth, cunning, caution, plans behind the scenes.

Reversed meaning

“Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: confession, coming clean, retreat reconsidered.

The archetype

In the language of the thinking function (discrimination, conflict and truth — the air of the mind): assessment — imagination tests what has been built.

Astrology

Decan: Moon in Aquarius. Air triplicity (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius).

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