tarot card meanings · minor arcana · wands
seven of wands — tarot card meaning
The high ground held; one against many, valiantly placed.
reversed
Feeling besieged by imagined enemies; yielding the hill too soon.
two philosophical anchors, cited
The citadel of the mind · Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.48 (tr. Long)
“The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge.”
Standing firm without hardening · Daodejing, ch. 76 · after Legge
“The soft and weak overcome the hard and strong - defense need not petrify.”
the question we would ask
Which battles on your hill are truly yours, and which did you inherit or invent?
how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.