Six of Swords
The Six of Swords signifies a transition away from difficulty toward a calmer, more stable future, often with the assistance of others. It highlights the courage to seek help and leave murky, draining circumstances behind, enabling healing and renewed perspective. The card suggests that although transitions can feel disorienting, the worst obstacles are behind you and safe passage is available. In reversal, it warns of old patterns, stubborn self-reliance, or delays that block progress and postpone necessary decisions or journeys.
Keywords
Six of Swords
Keyword
A New Beginning
Description
The Six of Swords announces the end of a difficult situation and the beginning of a new future. A woman, with the assistance of a ferryman, bravely sets out for a new shore, escaping the drab and murky circumstances of her past. Her willingness to ask for help frees her from drama and allows assistance to appear, providing an opportunity for healing and comfort. Transitions can be disorienting, but trust that the worst of the obstacles have passed. It will all begin to make sense very soon as calm waters provide you with stability and safe passage.
Meaning
Overcoming adversity, shedding the past, an imminent beginning, a request for help that brings resolution, a return to harmony, travel or a journey.
Reversal
Old patterns of behavior that prevent progress, an impasse, stubborn self-reliance, a postponement of a decision or a journey.
Visual Description
A small white rowboat moves away from the viewer across a vast, muted sea. Two figures sit in the boat: one rows with long oars while the other is wrapped in a striped blanket, facing forward. Six long, blade-like dark shapes stretch from the foreground toward the boat and a low, hazy horizon with a distant landmass is visible.
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