Eight of Swords
Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness. Reversed – disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.
Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness. Reversed – disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.
Imitation, as, for example, sham fight, but also the strenuous competition and struggle of the search after riches and fortune. In this sense it connects […]
Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty. Reversed – evil, suspicion, suspense, fear, mistrust.
On the one hand it is represented as a card of gaiety, recreation and its connexions, which is the subject of the design; but it […]
Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination, and the qualities thereto belonging. Reversed – more evil side of these qualities; what is unforeseen, unprepared state; […]
Presents, gifts, gratification another account says attention, vigilance now is the accepted time, present prosperity, etc. Reversed – desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.
A card of the past and of memories, looking back, as – for example – on childhood; happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from the past; […]
A card of many significances, and some of the readings cannot be harmonised. I set aside that which connects it with honour and good faith. […]
Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, and all that the design signifies naturally, being too simple and obvious to call for specific enumeration. Reversed – […]
And today we have the Two of Cups. As usual, I give Waite’s vision of the card, ie: Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy, […]