Card 51 • swords

Two of Swords

Brief Description

The Two of Swords indicates an inner conflict between heart and mind and highlights strategies that are unsustainable and precarious. You may be managing the situation skillfully but are approaching exhaustion, and the stalemate cannot be held indefinitely. The card urges you to pause, take inventory, and work through repressed emotions and denial rather than continuing to waste energy. In reversal, the stalemate may conclude, but there is also a risk of trickery, deception, or dishonesty.

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Card Name

TWO OF SWORDS

Keyword

Inner Conflict

Description

There is a conflict between your heart and your mind, and the strategies you have in place are unsustainable, strained, and precarious. You are managing skillfully but will soon be exhausted. You must do something; it is not a position one can hold indefinitely. Though a stalemate may appear better than defeat, the issue can no longer be ignored. Pause, take inventory, and find your way through this struggle.

Meaning

wasted energy, failure to make a decision, denial of reality, a compelled choice, unsettling circumstances, repressed emotion

Reversal

a stalemate concluded, trickery, deception, dishonesty

Visual Description

A blindfolded woman strides forward through shallow water carrying two long swords held aloft, a diaphanous white cloth draped around her body. Snowy hills or mountains line the horizon behind her under a pale, muted sky. The water ripples around her feet and reflects light, while the swords point upward, creating vertical lines against the sky. No other figures appear in the scene and the palette is cool and subdued.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Jonathan Saiz, Jason Gruhl, Andi Todaro

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