Six of Swords
Six of Swords
Number 6 Air
A swords card: thought, truth, and what you keep turning over.
Upright
moving ona difficult crossingleaving for calmer watertransition
Leaving somewhere hard for somewhere calmer, with your baggage and somebody helping. The Six of Swords is transition: the move, the recovery, the slow passage out of a bad period. The water ahead is flat and the water behind is not.
Reversed
stuckcarrying it with youa return
The crossing is stalled, or you have brought the trouble along. Reversed, this is the move that changed the address and not the problem, a departure delayed, or being pulled back.
What is in the picture
A ferryman poling a boat with a cloaked figure and a child aboard, six swords standing in the hull. The water on the near side is choppy and on the far side flat.
What it says about…
The line a reading leads with, depending on what you said you were asking about.
A bit of everything
Upright: you are moving out of the hard part. Slowly, and it is working.
Reversed: you have moved and brought the problem with you.
Love and relationships
Upright: a relationship coming through something into calmer water.
Reversed: the same argument in a new flat.
Work and direction
Upright: a move that gets you out of a bad situation.
Reversed: a new job with the old problem in it.
Money and security
Upright: past the worst of it, with the debt still in the boat.
Reversed: a financial fresh start that has not actually started.
Me, honestly
Upright: you are further out of this than you were a month ago.
Reversed: geography will not fix this one.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: yes: the option that moves you on.
Reversed: you will take the situation with you. Deal with it first.
If this card leads
Let somebody help with the crossing.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as yes. Reversed, no.
“I am further out of this than I was.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
