Eight of Swords Tarot Card Meaning and Art Visconti B Tarot Deck Fragment
Designation
About the Deck
Visconti B Tarot Deck Fragment
(aka Pierpont Morgan Bergamo Tarot Deck) One of the earliest Tarot Decks, the Pierpont Morgan Deck is entirely gilded, with fine paintings upon it.
It is estimated to have been produced around 1451 or 1452, possibly for a triumphal event in 1453.
Provenance
Italy, c. 1452.
Tags
swords-8, eight-of-swords, eight, swords
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.
