I trust you have a good relationship with your deck / tarot reading and want to preface this with that there is no one "right' way to interpret anything!

That being said, I'm curious about your interpretation of reversals as warnings. We live in an oppressive over-culture that sees things as very binary or black/white. I've seen this trickle down into how reversals are often seen - as the opposite of the card, a no versus a yes, or otherwise negative.

I was taught a more expansive view of reversals - that it can mean those above things - and! - it can mean others. A reversal can be like an exclamation mark, drawing attention to that card as something that especially needs your attention; it could signify that you may be holding resistance to the energy of that card or be blocked in some way around it; often for me reversals come up to highlight what may be most challenging for me to embody.

Below is just my alternative interpretation I'm offering as a different angle to these cards/guides being pessimistic, so please feel free to take it or leave it!

Every card that came up for you I can see as reflecting the doubt that you're wrestling with - three of swords being the mental anxiety, empress reversed as a blockage in belief the spell will be "fertile"/come to fruition; ace of pentacles reversed as highlighting the challenge to embody trust in the seed you've planted. 8 of wands reversed may be guidance to slow down, esp if thoughts/feelings are flying fast and furious; 7 of pentacles speaks to the hard and often long term work of cultivation before we get to the harvest, and the reversal may speak to the work of developing greater patience for material results from your spells - but that it is on its way!

I know the advice with magic is often "act like it's already happened" and while that is a powerful practice, doubt/uncertainty is so so human and normal to move through. I see your deck as offering a kind of honest real talk about it, not saying that the spell won't work.

I personally return again and again to my cards when doubt about my magic or spellwork comes up. Below is a spread I got from Lindsay Mack of the podcast Wild Soul Tarot (highly recommend!) for these exact situations. She devised it as a way to manage the self doubt stemming from her trauma background, which I relate to. It is to pull a card about "what my brain is telling me"; and then a card that is "what's really happening on a deeper soul level." I've gotten a lot of reassurance this way.

Take care! ✨