Eight of Swords Art and Meaning
About the Deck
A modern digital cartoon deck featuring traditional symbolism in a whimsical stick-figure style.
Provenance
Damian Cugley. Web, 2002. Used with permission of the artist.
Meaning of Eight of Swords from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Upright
restriction, impediment
Reversed
great restriction, need for change
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Enemy only partially successful.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
For a woman, scandal spread in her respect.
Reversed
Departure of a relative.
Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings
Social position. Constant love. Unimportant position. Bad companions.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Sickness, Calumny, Criticism, Blame
Reversed
Treachery in the Past, Event, Accident, Remarkable Incident.
P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Coming illness
Reversed
an engagement cancelled or a rejected proposal, dissipation.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
the goal which you strive to reach is very near; an event may happen at any moment which will lead you to it at once.