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Waite–Smith, Wands

Seven of Wands

A figure on uneven high ground braces a staff against six staffs rising from below. The two feet are shown in different footwear.
Enlarge ↗Source scan, PDF p. 198 ↗

What you can see

A figure on uneven high ground braces a staff against six staffs rising from below. The two feet are shown in different footwear.

What Waite says

Waite connects the advantageous position with courage, debate and competition. His account stresses the possibility of successful resistance while keeping indecision and anxiety among the alternative readings.

Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 184 ↗
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.