Magic Power

The Six of Swords is a card of voyage and discovery.

Magic Charm

Focus on this card for smooth sailing across troubled emotional waters, or when you want to ensure safe travel.

Key Symbols

• Two students are passengers in a small boat. The boat is a vessel, and a symbol of the human form.

• A ghostly figure in the back of the boat is steering the boat, propelling it from one shore to another. He represents guidance and safe passage. He also happens to look like a mythic psychopomp, a ferryman who would escort the souls of the recently departed across a river to the underworld.

• The bottom of the boat has been pierced by six swords, which stand upright like ghostly passengers. No one seems to notice them.

• The water in front of the boat is calm, but the water they’ve already crossed is choppy.

• The Six of Swords is a card of transition. It can represent a literal journey, a spiritual passage, an emotional voyage, or an intellectual expedition.

• The students are dressed in yellow, the elemental color of air. It indicates that they’re thoughtful and quick, and that they’re practicing air magic.