Tarot Cards Meanings - The Suit of Swords - The Eight of Swords - Meaning

The Eight of Swords - tarot card meanings and illustrations

The Eight of SwordsBasic Meaning

Upright - Envy, often from colleagues or family, predicaments and enforced isolation, issues relating to health and repression, difficulties and unhelpful circumstances dictated by fate. Positive thinking in the face of adversity. Life's limitations bring strength.

Key Words: Personal power, focus, feeling trapped, lessons to be learned.


Ill Dignified or Reversed - Hard work reaping little reward, frustration, gloom, feeling down. Effort being exercised in the wrong place. Change and liberation. A moving away from a problem rather than finding the solution to it. An enthusiastic approach is the way forward.

Key Words: Experience, problems left behind.

The Eight of Swords meaning and symbolism in detail.

The Eight of Swords Card illustration.


The Suit of Swords.