Meaning
Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.
Additional Meaning
For a woman, scandal spread in her respect.
Reversed
Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.
Additional Reversed
Departure of a relative.
Eight of Swords
Card No s8
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.
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Copyright
The Rider-Waite-Smith deck (1909) is no longer subject to copyright, so if you want to copy it, knock yourself out. I got all of Rider-Waite-Smith-deck-(1909) on the website Tarotlore a Reading into the Tarot