In the Seven of Disks, our hopes have been dashed; the energy that we invested into something has not yielded what we had hoped. While the card’s name, failure, may be strong, it doesn’t refer to a failure from making a single mistake. Instead, this card is about a failure that comes from giving up trying all together. There is a slowness to this card, a kind of stagnation. The fear of making more mistakes has now overcome your desire to take more risks, and to explore new boundaries. You may be stuck in a rut of negative thinking; remind yourself that you are not defined by your past mistakes. If you can learn from those mistakes, they just become learning experiences on a long path forward.