Card 52 • swords

Three of Swords

Brief Description

The Three of Swords signals heartache, disillusionment, and sudden painful insight that forces emotional truths into the open. It represents broken relationships, emotional shocks, tears, and shifting moods as old ties rupture and misunderstandings surface. The card also points to insults, hysteria, manipulation attempts, and mutual reproaches that deepen the wound. Upright it denotes chagrin, distress, and rejection; reversed it suggests sadness but the beginning of recovery and lingering confusion.

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Keyword

HEART WOUND

Description

This card reveals the sad truth, disillusionment, and sudden insight. Pain from a broken heart. Emotional shocks, tears, frequent change of mood. Rupture of relations, misunderstanding, disharmony. Insults and hysteria, attempts at manipulation, mutual reproaches.

Upright

Chagrin, distress, rejection.

Reverse

Sadness, recovery, confusion.

Visual Description

A robed figure with very long dark hair stands on cracked, parched ground, covering their eyes with both hands. Three upright swords are planted in the earth around and before the figure, the central sword directly in front of them. A turbulent, stormy sky fills the background, lending a cold, desolate atmosphere to the scene.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Mila Losenko

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