Waite–Smith, Swords
Seven of Swords
What you can see
A figure carries five swords away while looking back. Two swords remain planted near a camp of tents.
What Waite says
Waite gives plans, attempts and hopes alongside quarrels and possible failure. He explicitly calls the design’s import uncertain because the received meanings disagree; a single keyword such as theft does not exhaust his account.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 240 ↗Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.