Eight of Swords

Upright meaning

Feeling trapped by restrictions, fear, or a narrow view of your options. Some limits may be real and others assumed.

A situation can feel closed in when every option seems to carry a cost. Name the actual limits and look for one choice you still control.

A woman, bound and hoodwinked, with the swords of the card about her. Yet it is rather a card of temporary durance than of irretrievable bondage.

Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain

Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.

Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain

Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.

Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain

56. Eight of Swords.-Sickness, Calumny, Criticism, Blame; R. Treachery in the Past, Event, Accident, Remarkable Incident.