Minor Arcana: Swords Flashcards

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Ace of Swords

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Represents clarity, new ideas, and truth

  • Trust your intuitive moments that rise from clarity and connection to Self
  • Are your thoughts working for you or against you?
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Two of Swords

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Represents struggle, choice, and decision

  • When you make a choice, anchor yourself to it and go from there.
  • Reversed: Does thinking or feeling my way through something work better for you?
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Three of Swords

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Represents sorrow, sadness, and release

  • As you drop into feelings that hurt, it is important to release and let them go, but this can be done slowly.
  • Reversed: Is it possible that regret causes confusion? Or that confusions causes regret?
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Four of Swords

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Represents rest, stillness, and reflection

  • It is necessary to take time apart in a reflective way. Reset your intentions with your inner voice
  • Reversed: Does doing the same thing over and over create the same outcome for you?
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Five of Swords

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Represents conflict, tension, and shortsightedness

  • Only you can be sure if your actions align with your intensions, it is not your job to convince others of your intent.
  • Reversed: Is it possible that you are clinging to ideas that do not belong to you
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Six of Swords

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Represents hope, progress, and healing.

  • Gentle and compassionate thoughts towards yourself create space for healing to occur. Release yourself from the past.
  • Reversed: Is it possible your resistance to progress or healing is creating persistent discord?
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Seven of Swords

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Represents choice, integrity, and honesty
-You are only responsible for doing your best, you cannot control others’ perceptions, actions, or reactions.
Reversed: Is self-doubt or deception the cause of your discomfort?

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Eight of Swords

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Represents self doubt, constraint, and release
-Choose to strengthen the thoughts that empower you and release the constraints from thoughts that no longer serve you.
Reversed: Do you fully accept and love yourself for who you are and where you’ve come from?

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Nine of Swords

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Represents anxiety, overwhelm, and irrational thinking.

  • Choose to follow your anxious thoughts to their source and set your mind free.
  • Reversed: Are worry and fear holding you back from shining your light?
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Ten of Swords

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Represents finale, release, and liberation
-When pain rises in your life, take a moment to feel it, address it, love it, and understand it so you may heal.
Reversed: Are you resistant to healing something within yourself that is causing things to persist?

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Innocence of Swords

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  • Cut through the illusion of your thoughts and learn the facts and truth about who you are
  • Reversed: Does a lack of focus lead to unkept promises? Are you hiding by stretching the truth?
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Movement of Swords

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Ruling Sign: Gemini

-Look at the stories you tell yourself about the people in your life, are they the truth?

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Heart of Swords

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Ruling Sign: Libra

-Be mindful of the words you use to communicate with yourself and others. Now is a time to heal.

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Spirit of Swords

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Ruling Sign: Aquarius

Be the master of your mind. Think independently and communicate your truth to others with wisdom and clarity.

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