Eight of Swords Tarot card meaning

Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.

Eight of Swords

Tarot card meaning:

Narrow or restricted surroundings. Bondage. Imprisonment through indecision. Betrayal. Fear to move out of a situation. Temporary sickness.

Arthur E. Waite - The Pictorial Key to the Tarot :

A woman, bound and hoodwinked, with the swords of the card about her. Yet it is rather a card of temporary durance than of irretrievable bondage.

Eight of Swords card divinatory meanings:

Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.
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