About these meanings: the traditional descriptions and meanings on this public reference page are taken from material associated with the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck. Some of the language is historical, severe, or old-fashioned. Slogit Tarot modernises this terminology and greatly expands the meanings, examples and interpretations inside the Arcana Nexus learning course.

Minor Arcana · Swords

Three of Swords

Card Code S3

Suit Swords

Rank Three

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Description & Symbolism

Three of Swords

Three swords piercing a heart; cloud and rain behind.

Divinatory Meaning

Upright

Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, and all that the design signifies naturally, being too simple and obvious to call for specific enumeration.

For a woman, the flight of her lover.

Reversed Meaning

Reversed

Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.

A meeting with one whom the Querent has compromised; also a nun.