Eight of Swords

Description & Symbolism

Eight of Swords

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.

Divinatory Meaning

Upright

Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.

For a woman, scandal spread in her respect.

Reversed Meaning

Reversed

Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.

Departure of a relative.