Rider WaiteTarot Reading

 

 

Properties of 3 of Swords

 

Alternate Names: Sorrow

 

Keywords / Additional Meanings:

For a woman, the flight of her lover. Reversed: A meeting with one whom the Querent has compromised; also, a nun.

 

Description:

Three swords piercing a heart; cloud and rain behind.

Divinatory Meaning:

Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, and all that the design signifies naturally, being too simple and obvious to call for specific enumeration.

Reversed Meaning:

Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.

 

Astrological / Elemental Correspondence: Saturn in Libra