Small cards, Wands
Seven of Wands
Valour
You may need to hold a position without the comfort of consensus. Choose the ground carefully: courage is more useful when the thing being defended still matters.
What is worth standing behind even without applause?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Mars in Leo
- Suit element
- Fire
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Netzach
- Ten-degree span
- 20-30 Leo
Sources
The numbered cards combine a sphere, a suit element, and a planetary decan. The Ace begins at Kether; Two through Ten follow the numbered spheres. These are symbolic correspondences, not a birth chart.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 179 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Seven of Wands ↗
Spans use a starting boundary inclusive and an ending boundary exclusive. Older texts may describe the same interval with ordinal degree numbers.
Symbols
In the Book T design
A seventh upright wand passes between six crossed wands.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 179 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Valour.
Success remains possible through courage against resistance. The emphasis is on an effort that must still be made, with argument and bluster among its less constructive expressions.
Thoth: Seven of Wands.
Book T’s title is shown separately from the Thoth name. The symbol note below describes the 1912 text, whose design can differ from Harris’s painting.