Seven of Disks — Failure is a card of the Minor Arcana, suit of Disks in the Thoth Tarot. In a reading it speaks of failure, stagnation, waiting and frustration. In the Golden Dawn system it corresponds to the sephirah Netzach, the element Earth and Saturn in Taurus in astrology.
failure · stagnation · waiting · frustration · missed harvest
What does Seven of Disks mean?
Accept the pause and review your method: not everything is lost, but a new strategy is needed.
Everyday meaning
Failure, work unrewarded, stagnation. It points to efforts that do not give the hoped-for fruit, investments gone badly, a forced pause in growth.
Psychological meaning
The frustration of someone who has worked without seeing results; the discouragement that risks turning into inertia and resignation.
Initiatic meaning
Earth in Netzach, unstable Victory, with Saturn in Taurus in the third decan: Saturnine weight smothers Taurean fertility. Failure is matter that jams, the harvest that rots before it ripens.
The shadow side
Ill-dignified, it signals laziness, resignation, financial loss, blockage.
Seven of Disks reversed
The Thoth Tarot is traditionally read without reversed cards: the reader judges from the cards around it whether a card is well or ill dignified. This is its ill-dignified or blocked reading:
Failure denied or persistent; or a first sign of recovery after a long wait.
Seven of Disks in love, work and spirit
In love
A relationship at a standstill, little satisfaction, efforts not returned.
At work and career
Blocked projects, fruitless investments, delayed payments.
In spiritual practice
Accepting failure as a teacher of humility and patience.
Kabbalah, astrology and the Hebrew letter of Seven of Disks
Netzach · Earth · Saturn in Taurus
Crowley on Seven of Disks
Crowley arranges seven disks of lead in the geomantic figure Rubeus, on withered vegetation: the weight of Saturn smothering growth.
Frequently asked questions
What does Seven of Disks mean in the Thoth Tarot?
Accept the pause and review your method: not everything is lost, but a new strategy is needed.
What does Seven of Disks mean in love?
A relationship at a standstill, little satisfaction, efforts not returned.
What does Seven of Disks mean for work and career?
Blocked projects, fruitless investments, delayed payments.
What does Seven of Disks mean reversed?
The Thoth Tarot is traditionally read without reversed cards: the reader judges from the cards around it whether a card is well or ill dignified. This is its ill-dignified or blocked reading: Failure denied or persistent; or a first sign of recovery after a long wait.
What are the Kabbalah and astrology correspondences of Seven of Disks?
In the Golden Dawn system Seven of Disks corresponds to the sephirah Netzach, the element Earth and Saturn in Taurus in astrology.
