Seven of Coins
The Seven of Coins or Seven of Pentacles is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the "Minor Arcana".
The seven of coins is the most valuable individual card in Italy's national game of scopa. Known as the sette bello, capturing it is one of four achievements that earns a game point.
Interpretation for divination
The Seven of Coins can mean movement, either moving house or moving up in a career. When upright, it shows commitment to work life or dreams.Reversed, it signal excess energy and personal resource strain, the feeling of giving too much for too little reward or assurance of moving forward. It advises reassessment of commitment levels, especially during a bad investment of time and/or money.
In popular culture
In Italy, the playing card inspired the name for the Settebello, which inspired the name for Sette Bello, the racehorse. The card inspired the nickname of Italy men's national water polo team.In her poem The Seven of Pentacles, Marge Piercy writes: