The Seven of Disks
The Lord of Success Unfulfilled;
Failure
A White Radiating Angelic Hand issuing from a cloud,
and holding a white rose branch. Seven Pentacles arranged
like the geomantic figure Rubeus. There are only five buds,
which overhang, but do not touch the five uppermost
Pentacles. Above and below are the Decan symbols, Saturn and Taurus respectively.
Promises of success unfulfilled. (Shewn, as it were, by the fact that the rosebuds do not come to anything.) Loss of apparently promising fortune. Hopes deceived and crushed. Disappointment, misery, slavery, necessity and baseness. A cultivator of land, and yet a loser thereby. Sometimes it denotes slight and isolated gains with no fruits resulting therefrom, and of no further account, though seeming to promise well.
Netzach ofה final (Unprofitable speculations and employments;
little gain for much labour).
Thereinהרחאל and מצראל are ruling Angels.
• • •Promises of success unfulfilled. (Shewn, as it were, by the fact that the rosebuds do not come to anything.) Loss of apparently promising fortune. Hopes deceived and crushed. Disappointment, misery, slavery, necessity and baseness. A cultivator of land, and yet a loser thereby. Sometimes it denotes slight and isolated gains with no fruits resulting therefrom, and of no further account, though seeming to promise well.
Netzach of
Therein
“The number Seven, Netzach, has its customary enfeebling erect, and this is made worse by the influence of Saturn in Taurus. The disks are arranged in the shape of the geomantic figure Rubeus, the most ugly and menacing of the Sixteen. (See Five of Cups.) The atmosphere of the card is that of Blight. On the background, which represents vegetation and cultivation, everything is spoiled. The four colours of Netzach appear, but they are blotched with angry indigo and reddish orange. The disks themselves are the leaden disks of Saturn. They suggest bad money.”
— Crowley, The Book of Thoth