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Minor Arcana · Suit of Wands · Number card
Seven · Wands
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightHolding firmCourageThe high ground
↓ ReversedOverwhelmedIndecisionLosing footing
What it means
↑ Upright
Six staves rise from below against one man on the high ground, and he holds. Courage is the point: standing up for a position you have earned, whether in an argument, a negotiation or a contest of trade. The height is yours; keep your footing, meet each challenge as it comes, and do not climb down to fight.
↓ Reversed
Too many challenges at once and no clear sense of which to meet first: perplexity, embarrassment, a mind running in circles. The real danger is indecision itself, since a defender who hesitates can lose the height he had. Choose the one point worth defending, let the others go, and act on it.
Seven sets a test, and in Wands the test is whether you can hold the position your drive has won. In the 1909 Smith–Waite deck, this card shows a young man on a rocky height fending off six staves raised from below, and his two shoes do not match. The high ground gives him the advantage; the odd shoes are commonly read as a sign that he was caught unprepared and had to stand firm regardless.
Upright
It is a card of valor, for, on the surface, six are attacking one, who has, however, the vantage position. On the intellectual plane, it signifies discussion, wordy strife; in business—negotiations, war of trade, barter, competition. It is further a card of success, for the combatant is on the top and his enemies may be unable to reach him.
Reversed
Perplexity, embarrassments, anxiety. It is also a caution against indecision.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.