Seven of Spades—Upright. As a general exponent of current events, this card is taken to forewarn the consultant of the loss of a valuable friend, whose death will be a source of a great deal of misery. On this account many interpret this card to signify a coffin, which may be the case when coming out in close proximity to the ace of spades or the nine of spades.
Its most accepted primary signification, however, among practical cartomancists, is that of hope, whence are derived the secondary ones, expressed in the terms:
Trust; confidence; expectation; desire; inclination; longing after; wish; taste for; whim; humor; fancy.
Seven of Spades—Reversed. This card takes a wider and an apparently contradictory scope in its primary significations, when emerging in this manner, being good advice, friendship, and indecision.
From good advice we derive, as secondary attributes:
Wise counsels; salutary warnings; news; announcements; advertisements; placards; consultations; admonitions; instruction; advice.
For friendship we have the following synonyms:
Attachment; affection; tenderness; benevolence; well wishing; relation; harmony; correspondence; connection; identity; intimacy; agreement with; concordance; concurrence; interest; conformity; sympathy; affinity; attraction; admiration.
For indecision, the general synonyms are employed:
Want of resolution; uncertainty; perplexity; inconstancy; frivolity; lightness; variation; diversity; vacillation; hesitation; versatile; unsteady; changeable; whimsical; flexibility in character; unreliable; undetermined.