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Career, Work Or Retirement:
If you hate your work, believe that you hold the power to change your situation because you do. There may not be a whole lot that you can do to change your specific work environment, but that should not keep you from looking for a different, better situation if that is what your heart and spirit is crying out for. You cannot have it both ways; either you want out of your current situation or you are prepared to put up with the way things are. Which one is 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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Reversed Cards: One could argue that the upright version of this card is actually the retrograde aspect of its ruling planet, Jupiter. When Jupiter is retrograde, it is much harder to find the traction to expand and grow, which means that when you flip this card in the reverse aspect, you actually free Jupiter and return it to its direct position. This may or may not be a good thing. It really does depend on what cards land before this one in your reading. If you can see that you have been spinning your wheels, desperate to find firmer ground, then this is a positive position for the Eight of Swords. If, however, you find dreamy, distracting cards in front of this card, maybe you want to keep Jupiter bound just a little longer.
Complete Book of Tarot: Having experimented some with the cards, you should have a sense of where the information in a tarot reading comes from and how your presuppositions and attitudes influence your experience of the cards. On a technical level, you should have an understanding of the importance of shuffling and selecting cards with sincere intention, asking appropriately worded questions, endeavoring to empower the client, using various types of tarot spreads, making sense of tarot reversals and (if it suits your fancy) using elemental dignities. On a theoretical level, you should have some appreciation of the importance of the four elements (Fire, Water, Air, and Earth), number symbolism, tarot ethics, and (if such topics interest you) the role that Kabbalah, the Hebrew alphabet, and astrology played in generating modern meanings for the cards.
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Complete Book of Tarot: Waite (1911): A prostrate figure, pierced by all the swords belonging to the card. Divinatory Meanings: Whatsoever is intimated by the design; also pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation. It is not especially a card of violent death; (R) advantage, profit, success, favor, but none of these are permanent; also power and authority.