Western Tarot symbolism
Seven of Wands
The description places the defender on a craggy height with six staves approaching from below. It reads the unequal confrontation as valour and applies its competition to discussion and trade as well as combat. The supplementary list offers a child identified by the period's complexion vocabulary, rather than elaborating the defender's elevated position. This is a separate assigned meaning in the same edition.
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The card account
LiteraryThe description places the defender on a craggy height with six staves approaching from below. It reads the unequal confrontation as valour and applies its competition to discussion and trade as well as combat.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe supplementary list offers a child identified by the period's complexion vocabulary, rather than elaborating the defender's elevated position. This is a separate assigned meaning in the same edition.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. This entry follows that supplied edition’s card prose and supplementary lists. Historical divinatory assignments and period character labels are distinguished from the pictured symbolism and from independently supported judgements about people or future events.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
six other staves are raised towards him from below. DivimUory Meanings: It is a card of valor, for, on the surface, six are attacking one, whoOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; card description, active reader leaf 99
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0099
- Original scan leaf
- 105
- Recorded leaf number
- 105
- Current Reader position
- 99
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Seven.—A dark child. Six.—Servants may lose the confidence of their masters ; a young lady may be betrayed by a friend. Reversed: Fulfilment of deferred hope.Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; additional meanings, active reader leaf 150
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0150
- Original scan leaf
- 156
- Recorded leaf number
- 156
- Current Reader position
- 150
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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