From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
Seven of Wands
Meanings
Stand your ground. You are facing adversity and outnumbered, but you are fighting from a strong position. Hold firm, take courage and success will be yours.
Reversed (?)
Be brave. Do not despair, even when it seems you will soon be overwhelmed. If you feel you cannot win, it may be better to surrender than to fight on.
Description
A man stands on top of a rocky hill, wielding a wand in his own defence. Six more wands are coming up the hill at him, held by unseen hands. He does not look greatly worried. He is wearing a loose, practical robe with bare legs. The sky is full of dark, ominous clouds.
Artwork
- Wand: TIZIANO, Vecellio (Titian), St Christopher, 1524, Palazzo Ducale, Venice.
- Wand leaves: PONTORMO, Jacopo, Cosimo il Vecchio, c.1520, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
- Sky: GOYEN, Jan van, Marine Landscape with Fishermen, 1600s, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
- Hill: RAFFAELLO, Sanzio, The Entombment, 1507, Galleria Borghese, Rome.
- Man: GENTILESCHI, Orazio, David Slaying Goliath, 1607-9, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
- Face: MEMLING, Hans, Diptych of Maarten Nieuwenhove, 1487, Memlingmuseum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges.
