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Five swords carried off and two left behind. The Seven is the sideways approach — cleverness, discretion, occasionally plain dishonesty — and the awkward question of who is being kept out of the loop, and why.
Reversed
Reversed, it's getting caught, coming clean, or realising you've been the one in the dark. All three are uncomfortable and all three are better than continuing.
If this is your card this month
Where are you taking a shortcut you'd rather not explain?
A card is a prompt rather than a forecast. It doesn't know what will happen, and the useful part is what you do with the question it hands you. We make that case at more length in not a prediction, a mirror.