Eight of Swords

Meanings

  • trapped
  • restricted
  • victimised
  • paralysed
  • helpless
  • powerless
  • imprisonment

Other Meanings

  • honoring limits
  • respecting the rules
  • deciding to go on a diet for your health's sake
  • recognizing you cannot always be in control
  • identifying obstacles to further progress
  • refusing to think about unhealthy or unethical options
  • asking for assistance

Meanings Reversed

  • freedom
  • release
  • taking control
  • survivor
  • facing fears
  • empowered
  • surrender

Other Meanings Reversed

  • feeling trapped
  • being lost in a maze of rules and regulations
  • giving in to despair
  • playing the victim
  • allowing others to dictate what you can and cannot do
  • being rendered helpless
  • having very few options
  • failing to look for a way out

Questions

  • Who's empowered to cut through the red tape?
  • What, exactly, are the obstacles? What resources, exactly, are needed to move them?
  • To what extent is your powerlessness a matter of attitude?

Fortunes

  • Get over playing the victim
  • Once you realize you are your own biggest obstacle, nothing can hold you back

Affirmation

"I know my own limits."

Numerology

8 (The Action: movement, outer work, swiftness)

Types of tarot decks.

marseilles

deviant

gilded

linestrider

shadowscapes

wild

rider

thoth

witches

benny

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