Eight of Swords Tarot Card Meaning and Art Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck
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About the Deck
Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck
These cards are featured in my book, "A Concise Guide to the Tarot" by Loren Lundgren. I took the information for the meanings on these tarot cards from "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition Under the Veil of Divination", by A. E. Waite, 1911, now in the public domain. I edited the tarot card descriptions and meanings for clarity and brevity, modernizing the text. I scanned in the original black and white illustrations of the cards drawn by Pamela Colman Smith, from the 1911 book. I digitally retouched and painted those illustrations in detailed color.
Provenance
Loren Lundgren, © 2021
Description
A woman stands bound and blindfolded, with the swords of the card around her. It is a card of temporary imprisonment rather than permanent bondage.Meaning of Eight of Swords from the Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Upright
Bad news, terror, crisis, rebuke, powerful obstacles, conflict, slander; also sickness.
Reversed
Anxiety, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; surprises; fatality.
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.
