Eight of Swords

Minor Arcana · Kılıç Sekiz

Movement and mastery in thought, conflict and truth.

Upright: air, thought, conflict and truth

Reversed: blocked, excess

Waite's description

A woman, bound and hoodwinked, with the swords of the card about her. Yet it is rather a card of temporary durance than of irretrievable bondage.

Divinatory Meanings

Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.

Reversed

Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911 — public domain.

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