Eight of Swords upright
Blindfolded, bound, eight swords standing around her - and yet the swords don't fence her in completely, and the bindings would slip with effort.
Take off the blindfold. The Eight of Swords is mental imprisonment that's mostly self-imposed - the situation is constraining but not as total as it feels.
Eight of Swords reversed
Reversed, the bindings are loosening. Perception is shifting; freedom of movement returns.
Keywords
- self-imposed limits
- trapped thinking
- fear
- imprisonment of mind
- release
Where this reading comes from
Meaning authored from the Rider-Waite-Smith reader tradition rather than copied from any single modern source.
Common questions
- What does Eight of Swords mean?
- Bound and surrounded by swords - but the bindings are loose. Blindfolded, bound, eight swords standing around her - and yet the swords don't fence her in completely, and the bindings would slip with effort.
- What does Eight of Swords mean reversed?
- Reversed, the bindings are loosening. Perception is shifting; freedom of movement returns.
- Is Eight of Swords a good card to draw?
- Eight of Swords belongs to the swords suit, which deals with thought, conflict and truth. No card is simply good or bad; what it means depends on the question and where it lands in the spread.
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