Two of Swords
Two of Swords
Number 2 Air
A swords card: thought, truth, and what you keep turning over.
Upright
stalematerefusing to looka blocked decisiontruce
Blindfolded, arms crossed, a sword in each hand, with her back to open water. The Two of Swords is a decision avoided by declining to look at it, a truce that holds only as long as nobody moves. Comfortable for a while. Not indefinitely.
Reversed
the blindfold offa stalemate brokeninformation arriving
The blindfold comes off. Reversed, this is information arriving that makes the choice obvious, a stalemate broken, or the moment where avoidance stops being available.
What is in the picture
A blindfolded woman with two crossed swords, sitting in front of a moonlit sea scattered with rocks. She cannot see the rocks. They are behind her anyway.
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 avoiding a decision by refusing to look at it.
Reversed: the blindfold comes off and the answer is fairly obvious.
Love and relationships
Upright: a standoff nobody will name.
Reversed: something said that cannot be unsaid, and needed saying.
Work and direction
Upright: two options and a deliberate refusal to compare them.
Reversed: the information you were waiting for turns up.
Money and security
Upright: not opening the statements is a decision too.
Reversed: look at the real number. It is usually less bad.
Me, honestly
Upright: you know. You have arranged not to know.
Reversed: you can look at this now.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: you are not stuck, you are declining. Take the blindfold off.
Reversed: decide: you now have what you were waiting for.
If this card leads
Look at it for ten minutes with a pen.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as maybe. Reversed, maybe.
“I can look at this.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
