Eight of Swords
Eight of Swords — the suit of air, of thought, conflict and trouble.
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.
Divinatory meaning
Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.
Reversed
Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality. [Illustration]
From The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, A. E. Waite, page 56 of the library’s copy. The words are Waite’s.
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