Seven of Disks

Meanings according to Rider-Waite:

ASTROLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Jupiter/Saturn as a symbol of patience, slow but steady growth.

SEVEN OF DISKS This card embodies patience and slow growth. It advises us not to rush when we have found a promising opportunity, but to consider it from every angle, giving ourselves time before making a decision: let the seed put forth a sprout, show its leaves and flowers. If we do not hurry events along and pluck fruit while it is still green, we will be able to achieve success. Together with the Hanged Man and the Four of Swords, the Seven of Disks forms a triad indicating the necessity of waiting. However, unlike those two cards, it signifies not a halt, but continuous growth.

From the book: Hajo Banzhaf. TAROT HANDBOOK. Translated from the German by E. Kolesov. Publisher: Center for Astrological Research, 1999.

SEVEN OF PENTACLES Failure, Insolvency. The third decan of Taurus, from May 10 to May 20. Astrological equivalents: Libra, Venus, Chiron, Saturn. The third decan of Taurus symbolizes a responsible attitude toward work and the methodical realization of one's desires, love for the earth, and a person's complete devotion to creativity and creation. It is ruled by patient and strict Saturn, who helps organize the feelings and endows its representatives with such qualities as persistence, justice, and loyalty. Saturn, however, also bestows anxiety and worry over one's material situation, stinginess, and a desire for immediate success. The TAROT card depicts a man who has come to the vineyard he has cultivated and finds no fruit there. Life deprives a person of results so that he may move further onward. The attainment of a goal never brings complete satisfaction: a person always wants and expects something greater from life. This is the loss of the finite for the sake of the infinite. The young man in the picture is forced to acknowledge that the result he wished to achieve does not, in fact, fit within the framework of the needs of the surrounding life as he has defined them. The true purpose of labor remains unknown to him, for it lies beyond the bounds of his personality and belongs to the eternal process of man's transformative activity in the world. The Trap. To become mired in meaningless work, lacking the strength to stop. SEVEN is a perfect number, and therefore the SEVEN OF PENTACLES signifies the attainment of a certain physical goal, the establishment of relationships. The SEVEN OF PENTACLES corresponds to Libra, the Seventh House. The influence of Mercury is also tangible within it.

UPRIGHT POSITION In the upright position the SEVEN OF PENTACLES symbolizes talent, illumination, growth, hard work, progress, money, successful deals, income, health. The card may symbolize a moment suitable for concluding a contract or a marriage (provided, of course, that there are additional indicators). This card signifies contact with harmony, equilibrium, gracefulness. It may symbolize a platonic romance or a beautifully conducted financial operation. At the same time, in the SEVEN OF PENTACLES, Chiron acts through Libra, sometimes bringing with it confusion, disorder, ambiguity. Here it is necessary to consult the horoscope before pronouncing a "verdict" as to how the person will handle this ambiguity: whether they will dissolve into it and revel in it, or make an attempt to set everything in order. The SEVEN OF PENTACLES may signify not only harmony, but also questions connected with the preservation of harmony, and certain difficulties that arise in the process.

REVERSED POSITION In the reversed position, the SEVEN OF PENTACLES: anxiety, impatience, lack of ease, carelessness, loss of money, unsuccessful investments. A debased Libra, an afflicted Seventh House. It may indicate quarrels and scandals with spouses or partners, treachery on the part of a companion. A partner who does not live up to expectations, who does not make an equal contribution to the common cause — this is another motif associated with the SEVEN OF PENTACLES, whether upright or reversed. Disharmonious social behavior, the disruption of public order in which you are either the instigator of the disgrace or its victim — the SEVEN OF PENTACLES may also manifest in this way. The work must be carried out, yet its fruits have still not appeared. We may be speaking of a situation in which no labor brings success, nor can it bring success.