Seven of Wands
The Seven of Wands represents strength through adversity, resilience, and the courage to stand your ground for what you believe in. It encourages fighting with integrity and suggests that if you are aligned with your values you are likely to prevail. It can also indicate feeling isolated or besieged, warning against defensiveness, paranoia, or adopting unethical tactics. Imagery of a flowering central club and almond blossoms points to a higher purpose and divine blessing, while the salamander symbolizes endurance through fire.
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Card Title
Seven of Wands
Keywords
Defiance, spiritual courage, standing your ground, fighting with integrity for what you believe in.
Meaning
The Seven of Wands is a card of strength through adversity, of standing our ground, of never giving up the fight. It carries an energy of resilience, fortitude, and holy defiance. When it appears in a reading, this card emboldens us to stay true to our values and ideals and fight for what we believe in, and it usually means that we’ll come out on top because, whatever we’re up against, we’re in the right.
Challenges
However, it can also mean that whatever we’re up against, we’re in it alone—or we feel like we are. The 7 of Wands can feel like everyone is against us, and it encourages us to find the strength to stand up straight and go it alone if we must. In such cases, it’s easy to become defensive, combative, and paranoid, perceiving threats where there are none. So the card also reminds us to stay in touch with our integrity and not stoop to the underhanded tactics of others. In the immortal words of Michelle Obama, "When they go low, we go high."
Imagery
Our card shows a ring of weaponized clubs and torches surrounding a single upright club, but instead of spikes, the central club sprouts living, flowering branches, symbolizing the divine spirit flowing through it, turning it into an instrument of higher purpose and peace, not of brute force. The blooms are almond flowers, which have significance in Judaism and ancient cultures as a symbol of light and divine blessing. The salamander was classically thought to be a creature born of fire, therefore making it immune to the flames.
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Visual Description
A single upright wooden wand with fresh blossoms and a small red lizard clinging to it stands centered in the image. Six other staves surround it, some tipped with flames, one spiked, set against a smoky gray background. Petals and small leaves drift through the air. The Roman numeral VII is printed at the card's base and a faint watermark text runs across the lower area.
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