In the medieval scapini deck (
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Ie0fj0D_hUg/TWsO0KatapI/AAAAAAAAAHY/7QFPNfHgQ9E/56.jpg) the sword handles are all facing different angles from the centered. The man looks like he's some sort of alchemist (one who specializes in transmutation). The handle positions remind me of this (
http://truereligiondebate.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/hindu-god.jpg) where in Hindu imagery sometimes the heads of one deity or similar deities face in different directions.
Sometimes this means in general terms as multiple realities. Different actions one can take, that can produce the same result, kind of thing. Reverse this, well the points of each of those swords are all the same so if the points are up right all the different realities become one. The rainbow in the bottle that the alchemist is trying to contain while upright is being released. At the end of rainbows are mythologically pots of gold. In fact, the alchemist in this card appears to be a bit of a leprechaun himself.
In the Buddhist tradition there is a path of enlightenment called the rainbow body of light. One's body is said to literally diminish in proportional size and create a flash of colorless light once the body finishes dissolving. Then a rainbow generally appears afterwards...
To me, upright the Seven of Swords is a trickster in that he's captured the rainbow of some soul and is burning it in a bottle over a fire.
So reversed, everything becomes light again, all sword points are the same. Swords are thoughts and thought is a word, is sound, is vibration, is energy, that glows, which is light. (qabbalistic).
Things are whole again, at least for a little while.
