Understanding the Meaning of the 7 of Spades Card

The 7 of Spades represents satisfaction with life, creative potential, and the ability to defend one’s position and protect oneself. However, don’t think that this card plays an exclusively favorable role in the deck. For example, in a spread, it can hint at a pleasant or unpleasant unexpected event.

In which moments should you pay more attention to the 7 of Spades? What can the 7 of Spades in the tarot deck be compared to? We’ll tell you in this article!

Symbolism and Traditional Interpretations of the 7 of Spades

The main meaning of this card in any spread is a conversation in the dark, an unpleasant conversation, an unexpected revelation, and the uncovering of deception. It may take place in the querent’s home or in the home of the figure that appears next to the card.

Symbolically, the Seven of Spades with its point upward always foretells unpleasant surprises, especially in relationships between people. It can predict disappointment, unpleasant news, or unexpected revelation of unpleasant truth that may offend and hurt the person for whom the reading is done. Sometimes the card indicates that a conversation will take place in a man’s home late at night.

This card reveals creative potential and is responsible for the feeling of satisfaction, having principles that need to be defended. Another 7 of Spades meaning: some kind of surprise, though it’s difficult to say how pleasant it will be — time or neighboring cards in the spread will show this.

The 7 of Spades in Love, Career, and Personal Growth

In love, such a card foretells a new stage in relationships or strong distress and tears, caused both by the behavior of a loved one and by groundless suspicions, doubts, and worries.

This card in a spread almost always foretells not only unpleasant rumors and gossip but also significant distress, quarrels, and offenses that can cause strong disappointment, tears, or force the termination of a relationship altogether or take it to a new level. In some cases, the card foretells a night for two in a man’s house or an argument there, a scandal.

In career spreads, such a card foretells major troubles related to orders, decrees, and documents. This card indicates bureaucratic obstacles and financial problems that may hinder achieving the desired goal, for example, getting a job or entering a university.

This card indicates a passionate desire for success and significant obstacles on the path to a happy and successful life. For this very reason, such a card can promise significant difficulties and obstacles.

Reversed 7 of Spades – Warnings, Challenges, and Hidden Messages

In its reversed form, this card predicts receiving sad news, unpleasant conversations, and papers that can cause anxiety and spoil the mood for a long time.

It’s possible that a man is involved in the situation who is trying to change everything for the worse, that the querent has an enemy or a person capable of meanness, betrayal, deception, relations with whom can cause losses, worries, and bad news. This card speaks of an unpleasant conversation or meeting with an extremely unpleasant person at night.

In a live context, the reversed 7 of Spades indicates the end of relationships, quarrels, a painful breakup or conflicts, tormenting relationships for both partners, a choice that may prove to be painful. Most likely, all plans will be disrupted and the relationship will bring nothing good to the partners, old grievances and dissatisfaction with each other may intensify, and even very strong jealousy may appear.

The card also indicates that loving people have an enemy who can set them against each other, pursuing their own goals, most often these are relatives, mutual friends, or former lovers.

How to Use the 7 of Spades in Cartomancy and Tarot Readings

First of all, the 7 Spades in cartomancy means falsity, deception, cunning, and insidious intentions. If this card falls behind a figure, it means that the person designated by the figure card is being cunning or lying. The 7 of Spades can also mean a quarrel between people.

When combined with the 9 and 10 of Diamonds, the 7 of Spades means theft of money or a strong conflict over it. The 7 of Spades with the Queen very often means an unwanted pregnancy that will have to be terminated or which will end in a miscarriage, etc. If Jack appears next to the combination of the 7 of Spades and the Queen, this almost always means that the lady is about to give birth. By the further spread, you can very often see the gender of the child who will be born and his health. Also, the 7 of Spades often means betrayal by a close person.

Comparing this card with the Tarot deck, we can definitely say that it corresponds to the 7 of Swords. It, like the 7 of Spades, embodies cunning, secrecy, and the need to act in the shadows.