Minor Arcana · Asa Yedi
Assessment and perseverance in drive, creativity and action.
Upright: fire, drive, creativity and action
Reversed: blocked, excess
A young man on a craggy eminence brandishing a staff; six other staves are raised towards him from below.
It is a card of valour, for, on the surface, six are attacking one, who has, however, the vantage position. On the intellectual plane, it signifies discussion, wordy strife; in business—negotiations, war of trade, barter, competition. It is further a card of success, for the combatant is on the top and his enemies may be unable to reach him.
Perplexity, embarrassments, anxiety. It is also a caution against indecision.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911 — public domain.