Eight Of Swords

Card Number: 42

Card Name: Eight of Swords

Core Attributes

• ✨Astrological Correspondences:✨♃ Jupiter in Gemini
• ✨Element:✨🌬️ Air
• ✨Direction:✨🧭 East
• ✨Numerology:✨8️⃣ 8
• ✨Archetype:✨🎭 The Prisoner, The Restrained One, The Trapped Mind
• ✨Energy:✨⚡ Restriction, limitation, fear, paralysis, lack of clarity, victim mentality
• ✨Keywords:✨🗝
  • Upright Keywords for The Eight of Swords:
  • Restriction
  • Feeling trapped
  • Paralysis
  • Victim mentality
  • Fear
  • Isolation
  • Confusion
  • Mental blocks
  • Hopelessness
  • Limited perspective
  • Reversed Keywords for Eight of Swords:
  • Release
  • Freedom
  • Clarity
  • New perspective
  • Empowerment
  • Breaking free
  • Overcoming fear
  • Mental clarity
  • Resilience
  • Liberation
• ✨Basic Meaning:✨📖 In the upright position, the Eight of Swords represents restriction, fear, and a sense of entrapment, often caused by one’s own thoughts or perceptions. It reflects paralysis and limitation, symbolizing a victim mindset that clouds the way forward. Though the situation feels confining, release is possible through inner clarity and courage. In the reversed position, the Eight of Swords suggests freedom, release, and empowerment. It signifies breaking free from fear, shifting perspective, and gaining resilience after a time of limitation or self-imposed restriction.

Symbols & Associations

• ✨Gemstones:✨💎 Black Tourmaline, Smoky Quartz, Hematite, Fluorite, Amethyst
• ✨Herbs:✨🌿Rosemary, Sage, Rue, Dill, Chamomile
• ✨Runes:✨ᚠ Isa, Nauthiz
• ✨Tree:✨🌳 Elm, Willow
• ✨Chakra:✨🌀 Solar Plexus, Third Eye

Cultural and Mythological Links

• ✨Deities:✨👑Hecate, Persephone, Tyr
• ✨Sabbats:✨🎃 Samhain, Mabon
• ✨Archangel:✨👼 Michael, Zadkiel
• ✨Shem Angel:✨🪽 Ieiazel, Menadel
• ✨Native American Totem Animals:✨🦉Spider, Bat, Crow, Rabbit
• ✨I-Ching:✨📜 47 Kùn – Oppression/Exhaustion
• ✨Tree of Life:✨🌲 Hod

Additional Details

✨Timing (When it should come about):✨⏳ 8 days, 8 weeks

✨Season:✨🌷 Late Spring Early Summer

✨Month:✨📅 May-June

✨Day of the Week:✨🗓 Wednesday

✨Time of the Day:✨🌞 Dawn

✨Yes/No Answer:✨✅❌ No

✨Count:✨#️⃣ 8

✨Colors:✨🎨 Gray, Black, Pale Blue, White

✨Aura Colors:✨🌈 Smoky gray, Indigo, Faded yellow

✨Moon Phase:✨🌙 Waning Moon

✨Weather:✨⛅ Fog, Cold air, Heavy mist

✨Metal:✨⚙️ Lead, Steel

✨Scents:✨🌸 Sage, Eucalyptus, Myrrh, Frankincense

✨Chocolate:✨🍫 Bitter Dark Chocolate

✨Candle Type:✨🕯️ Binding Candle

✨Common Associations:✨🔗 Restriction, entrapment, fear, limitation, mental paralysis, helplessness, isolation, hopelessness, mental blocks, illusion of being trapped, lack of clarity, stagnation, victim mentality, resilience, liberation, clarity, empowerment, courage

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