What does the Six of Swords tarot card mean?

The interpretation of the Six of Swords (where theoretically the number and suit should describe clarity and harmony of mind) often brings difficulties for Tarot lovers. It is exactly this clarity and lack of ambiguity that seems to be missing, and when consulting specialized literature dedicated to card meanings, the confusion regarding the Six of Swords often only grows. You get journeys, melancholic uncertainty, intellectualism, and practically departing into the next world... everything is mixed together. On the card, a person steers a flat-bottomed boat, the path is devoid of dangers or external threats, the cargo is light, and the work is not burdensome for the ferryman, yet the people sit hunched over, in silence and sorrow, and the river looks a bit like the Styx. The combination of the number, the suit, and the unsettling, borderline image of the ferryman in the boat and the cloaked figures leads to a stunning vagueness of interpretations, and the spread does not always help to determine the accents (at least in the sense of positive or negative).

What does the Six of Swords reversed mean?

Traditionally - the inability to find a way out of a situation. Being at a dead end - literally or figuratively. Insolubility of problems. This could be an inability to come to an agreement within the family, an unfavorable outcome of a trial (up to imprisonment, as ancient interpretations warn), or simply the circumstance that arising problems are not solved but put on the back burner.

What does the Six of Swords mean in love?

Oh, the river is wide... Sometimes the card literally symbolizes the distance separating people. It entails sudden departure, farewell, leaving, escape, disappearance without explanation (in a reversed position - with explanations and confessions). The need to retreat, withdraw (or distancing oneself deep in the soul). Combined with the Ten of Swords, naturally - termination of relationships, with the Eight of Cups - separation.

What does the Six of Swords mean for career?

A change of job, new professional assignments, enrolling in studies (or, at least, choosing a direction), starting the development of a project. Most likely, uncertainty, because it is unknown how successfully all of this can be managed.

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Six of Swords

Swords — Minor Arcana

Lord of Earned Success

Science, Spirit of Knowledge

Revelation, Insight

Mercury in Aquarius, Saturn in the 4th house, Mars in the 4th house as a breakthrough to freedom from familiar surroundings, and Mercury in the 9th house as the search for new horizons.

Second decan of Aquarius from February 1 to 9.

Virgo, Mercury and Saturn in Virgo, Mercury in Aquarius,

Saturn in the 4th house, also houses 6 and 10.

Key words – OTHER SHORES, TRANSITION

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