tarot card meanings · minor arcana · swords
seven of swords — tarot card meaning
Swords carried off at dusk; cunning, the oblique approach, self-dealing.
reversed
The scheme unravels; honesty as the cleverer strategy.
two philosophical anchors, cited
The lie in the soul · Plato, Republic II (382a) · after Jowett
“The true lie is hated by gods and men - the lie in the soul about the things that are.”
Straightness that looks crooked · Daodejing, ch. 45 · after Legge
“The greatest straightness seems crooked - but crookedness that serves the self is only crooked.”
the question we would ask
Who would you be in this situation if no one could ever find out what you did?
how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.