The Seven of Swords as Advice: Be Strategic, and Honest

Written by Chaya the Medium.

The Seven of Swords as advice asks for cleverness without concealment. Here is how, and what the reversal says.

If you want the short answer, the Seven of Swords as advice says: be strategic, and be honest. Think carefully about your approach, and do not hide what matters.

What the Seven of Swords advises upright

Tina Gong's the Seven of Swords guide at Labyrinthos associates the upright card with deception, strategy, getting away with something and acting alone. In an advice position I read those meanings as an instruction: the attitude or action the card is asking of you, rather than a description of what will happen. The Minor Arcana overview at Biddy Tarot is a useful second reference.

Upright, the Seven of Swords advises discretion and planning: keep your plans close until they are ready, protect your interests, watch for concealment around you.

What the Seven of Swords is not asking you to do

The Seven is not advising deception.

The Seven of Swords reversed as advice

Reversed, the Seven of Swords as advice says come clean. What is hidden is costing you. A reversed card in an advice position is usually pointing at the habit that is getting in your way, not at a punishment.

The Seven of Swords as advice in love

In love, the Seven of Swords advises asking the honest question rather than guessing.

The Seven of Swords as advice for work and money

For work and money, it advises protecting your ideas and checking others' intentions. Advice from a card is reflection. For decisions with legal, medical or financial weight, take it to someone qualified as well.

One step to take this week

Name one thing you have kept back that someone deserves to know, and decide when to tell them.

For comparison, the Five of Swords as advice and the Moon as advice ask different things of you. The the Seven of Swords card meaning page covers the card in full, and the Seven of Swords as a yes or no, the Seven of Swords as feelings and the Seven of Swords as timing cover the other questions people most often ask of it. You can draw a card for yourself with the free daily tarot tool. For a personal interpretation, my guide to an online psychic reading explains how readings work, and the three-card tarot listing and customer reviews are worth reading before deciding whether to order.