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Eight of Swords

Minor Arcana · Swords

This is tarot, a different tradition from astrology. The card is drawn at random: nothing in the sky chooses it. It is a prompt for reflection and it predicts nothing.

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Tarot cardMinor Arcana · Swords

Traditionally read as feeling bound by one’s own view: restrictions that are real in part and partly a matter of perception. It is associated with helplessness, limited options and the way out being closer than it seems.

  • restriction
  • helplessness
  • perception
A question to sit withWhich of my limits are fixed, and which are assumptions?
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Reversed

What the tradition associates with this card when it falls the other way up.

Reversed, traditionally read as a restriction loosening. It is associated with seeing that some of the limits were assumed, with a first move out of a fixed position, and with taking back a sense of choice.

  • release
  • new perspective
  • self-acceptance
A question to sit withWhich option have I recently noticed that I could not see before?

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