57-Eight of Swords Upright Rider Waite Family Tarot Reading

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In general, the Eight tells us that we must be open to defeat in order to ever possibly win. Do not fear the unknown; many blessings reside for you there. Examine your thoughts, speech, and behavior for negativity and know that what you say and do and the choices that you make affect the outcomes in your life. If you need help managing and dealing with your fears, ask for it.

Card Meanings: Feeling Pressure, Paralysed By Fear/Terror, Indecision, Persecution, Crisis, Victimised, Psychological Issues, Punishment, Censure, Weakness, Hands Tied, Feeling Trapped, Silenced, Dilemma, Restricted, Judgment, Anxiety, Backed Into A Corner, Hopeless, Trial By Jury, Helpless, Negative Attitudes, Consequences, Powerless, Drama, Imprisonment, Slavery

When the Eight of Swords appears, you may be holding yourself back because you fear moving into the future, or because you are wary of getting hurt by a new situation, or maybe for no reason at all. Think through what it is that you’re afraid of. The truth of the situations are probably much less frightening than your mind is making it out to be.

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Complete Book of Tarot: When reversed, the Ten of Cups highlights family problems, domestic disruptions, and a sense of sadness in the home. There can also be a certain amount of strife and tension in other personal relationships. You may be experiencing a lack of a sense of fulfillment or a failure to achieve your heart’s desires; or else you have gotten what you want but you find it lacking. There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Crowley says of this card that having got everything you wanted, you realize that you did not want it after all, and now you must pay the piper.

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Reversed Cards: It really is hard to picture this card ever giving off the energy of protection, yet for me this card hints at the same need for surrender we find in the Hanged Man: the need to block the physical sense so that other aspects of your inner knowing can be heard and acknowledged. Just like the Hanged Man, the image seems extreme, yet don’t we always wait till something extreme happens to stop looking outside of ourselves to find the answers and solutions that are right inside us? Here in the protection aspect the Eight of Swords wants you to disengage from the physical world, to put yourself at odds with the senses and seek the inner divine knowledge that gets lost under the constant bellowing of the ego.

Complete Book of Tarot: Three-card readings are a popular way to read the tarot. The effectiveness of a three-card spread may be rooted in the philosophy of Hegel: thesis—antithesis—synthesis. The thesis refers to an idea or a proposition, the antithesis is a reaction to or negation of the proposition (thesis), and the synthesis is a creative resolution that resolves the conflict between the two. The Hegelian theme of a creative synthesis arising from the reconciliation of antithetical forces also appears on Temperance, trump XIV, a card associated with the centaur Sagittarius.

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Complete Book of Tarot: Waite (1911): Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin. It is a card in particular of unforeseen catastrophe; (R) according to one account, the same in a lesser degree; also oppression, imprisonment, tyranny.