Tarot card meanings · Swords
What does Two of Swords mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Two of Swords upright means “affection, intimacy. The suggestion of harmony and other favourable readings must be considered in a qualified manner, as Swords generally are not symbolical of beneficent forces in human affairs”, and reversed “Imposture, falsehood, duplicity, disloyalty”.
Upright
Affection, intimacy. The suggestion of harmony and other favourable readings must be considered in a qualified manner, as Swords generally are not symbolical of beneficent forces in human affairs.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Imposture, falsehood, duplicity, disloyalty.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
A hoodwinked female figure balances two swords upon her shoulders.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Two of Swords fall in a reading?
Two of Swords belongs to the suit of Swords. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
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Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.