Seven of Swords

DesignAttemptWishHope

Upright

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.

Reversed

Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

The picture

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.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

Older readings

Dark girl; a good card; it promises a country life after a competence has been secured. Reversed: Good advice, probably neglected.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §4. Waite collected these and says they often disagree with the main meanings.

Waite wrote in 1911 and some of his meanings show it. Tarot is a tradition of reflection, not a prediction, and no card decides anything for you.