Eight of Swords
8 (The Action: movement, outer work, swiftness)
Keywords
- restriction
- limitation
- confinement
- helplessness
Upright meanings
- Honoring limits
- Respecting the rules
- Deciding to go on a diet for your health's sake
- Recognizing you cannot always be in control
- Identifying obstacles to further progress
- Refusing to think about unhealthy or unethical options
- Asking for assistance
Reversed meanings
- Feeling trapped
- Being lost in a maze of rules and regulations
- Giving in to despair
- Playing the victim
- Allowing others to dictate what you can and cannot do
- Being rendered helpless
- Having very few options
- Failing to look for a way out
Fortune telling
- Get over playing the victim
- Once you realize you are your own biggest obstacle, nothing can hold you back
Questions to ask
- Who's empowered to cut through the red tape?
- What, exactly, are the obstacles? What resources, exactly, are needed to move them?
- To what extent is your powerlessness a matter of attitude?