Magic Power

The Eight of Swords is a card of entrapment.

Magic Charm

Focus on this card when you want to free yourself from unreasonable bonds or liberate yourself from past mistakes.

Key Symbols

• A young woman stands alone, bound, blindfolded, and imprisoned by eight swords that encircle her like the bars of a cage.

• The card can symbolizes frustration, fear, and a sense of powerlessness. It might represent mistreatment at the hands of others, controlling behavior, vulnerability, and deceit.

• While the Eight of Swords can represent victimhood at the hands of others, it can also signify a self-imposed form of martyrdom.

• The Eight of Swords could be a call for self-empowerment and self-improvement, if the wait for rescue or outside intervention doesn’t look promising.

• The young woman is dressed in yellow, the elemental color of air. It indicates that she’s normally thoughtful and quick, and that she’s a student of air magic.

• She’s pictured in a spring landscape, because the suit of swords corresponds to the season of spring.