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Eight of Swords Tarot Card Meaning

Eight of Swords belongs to the suit of Swords — the air suit of the mind, truth and conflict. Upright it speaks of self-imposed limits, feeling trapped, fear; reversed, of liberation, new perspective. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's archetype and its astrological correspondence.

Eight of Swords tarot card — hand-illustrated Lunara deck
Minor Arcana · SwordsAirJupiter in Gemini

Upright meaning

“Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: self-imposed limits, feeling trapped, fear, disempowerment.

Reversed meaning

“Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: liberation, new perspective, self-acceptance.

The archetype

In the language of the thinking function (discrimination, conflict and truth — the air of the mind): disciplined mastery — energy gathered and directed.

Astrology

Decan: Jupiter in Gemini. Air triplicity (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius).

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