Seven of Wands
The Seven of Wands signifies taking a stand and defending your position against external challenges. It embodies themes of tenacity, courage, and the need to establish boundaries against negativity and interference from others. The card emphasizes the importance of standing firm in your convictions and the consequences of allowing toxic influences into your life. Reversed, it may represent vulnerability and being targeted by the challenges of the world.
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Taking a Stand
The Seven of Wands is about taking a stand. Drawing a line in the sand. Standing on your own two feet. Choosing a metaphor. The man is at the top of a hill, so he’s worked hard to get there. All of those attacking him are beneath him. It’s unclear whether they’re trying to knock him down or are just being a pain in the ass. If you look at the bottom left corner of the Basic card, it looks like he’s right next to the edge of a drop-off. So his stance there is tenuous, and he’s got to concentrate. It’s all about context. It can mean either being confident or bringing the pain.
Reasons for Appearance
In readings, this card comes up for a few different reasons. Tenacity is always present but in different ways. The softest meaning is that you’re literally working your way to the top. You’ve got your goal in sight and you’re doing what you need to take care of it. Next, you are having to defend your goal or your path. Someone is questioning you or doubting you, and they don’t care whether you fail—in fact, they might be invested in seeing you fail. The challenge is now coming from outside rather than within. This change in motivation might affect how you carry yourself.
External Interference
Now it gets interesting. This isn’t just a challenge to your ideals; this is someone actively interfering with your life. It’s rarely as straightforward as someone getting in your way. It’s usually sneaky or annoying, but the other person’s goal is to knock you off track. This comes up a lot in readings in which a sibling, a close friend, or another family member is tossing roadblocks in your way. This is annoying but sometimes works. Sometimes it’s easier to acquiesce than to ruffle feathers and cause problems. Here’s where it gets serious: again, cards change their meanings slightly depending on the question, position of the card, etc. Wands especially don’t really have a stock answer.
Threats and Boundaries
The serious meaning of this card is that someone is threatening you or your loved ones. I think that people forget that we have a fierce nature. “You may not” is a sentence that I don’t hear often enough. You may not treat me like this. You may not bring that negativity into my life. You may not touch me. That’s a no.
Choosing Your Life
This card is not only about being brave and deciding how far is too far but also about deciding what kind of life you want to have. Do you want to allow toxic people into your space? Do you want to permit people to treat you like garbage? Sometimes it’s worth ruffled feathers to say no. Sometimes you have to, or your goal shifts and your road becomes strange and untenable. Then you have to fight to reclaim the distance you’ve lost. Sometimes you have to square your shoulders and tell someone to get the hell out of your face, and there doesn’t have to be any politeness about it.
Seven of Wands Inverted
Where the right-side up version of this card is you kicking the world’s ass and taking names, the reversed is the world getting even with you. You are vulnerable, a target, whether you show the vulnerability by keeping your head down and your opinions to yourself or by being victimized by others. Again, it’s a continuum. Whether you make yourself small or whether the world does, the results are the same. Head bowed, defeated.
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