Card Meaning: Three Of Swords
General
This can't be good, cloudly, gloomy skies with rain and three swords piercing
the heart. In this case the swords are thoughts, words that some people have
spoken about something or somebody we care for, they are sorrows that are
tormenting one's heart. But people must learn from sorrows, sorrows are the unlearnt
lessons that we are now learning the hard way. People don't learn from joy and
success.
Reading
Positive:
new beginning, deeper understanding.
Negative: sorrow, discord, heartbreak, separation,
confusion, betrayal, loneliness, avoiding resolution of situation, confusion.
Three swords piercing a heart; cloud and rain behind. Divinatory Meanings:
Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, and all that the design
signifies naturally, being too simple and obvious to call for specific
enumeration. Reversed: Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction,
disorder, confusion.
— The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, by A.E. Waite