Card 57 • swords

Eight of Swords

Brief Description

The Eight of Swords confronts you with a powerful question about truth and freedom. It challenges your resistance to seeing reality clearly, suggesting that self-imposed limitations may be keeping you trapped. The card calls for honest self-examination of the barriers you create through denial or willful blindness. True liberation comes only when you courageously face the truth you've been avoiding.

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The Challenge of Truth

You are told that the truth will set you free? If so, then how do you justify your unwillingness to see the truth?

Visual Description

A pale woman with translucent wings stands with her back partly turned in a teal-green room between two columns. Each column rests on a plinth decorated with a beetle motif, and a tall, leaf-shaped mirror or shield with swirling wood-like patterns hangs on the wall beside her. A horizontal sword is depicted in the black top border, and the number 8 appears centered in the black bottom border. The woman wears a long blue gown and looks over her shoulder toward the mirror-like object.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Marco Nizzoli, Barbara Moore

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