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Aerin said:When I get this card it is usually about disillusionment, like when you discover Santa Claus isn't real
Aerin
Santa isn't real????
Aerin said:When I get this card it is usually about disillusionment, like when you discover Santa Claus isn't real
Aerin
The crowned one said:"I feel this card is often misrepresented or interpreted. Somehow it is constantly interpreted in the light of a cup, emotion and feelings, rather then by the way of the sword, intellect and reason. Even the tarot dictionaries have too many cup style interpretations for my liking. So here are my thoughts on the Three of Swords…
Generally I see this card being used in readings by others as meaning “sorrow and heartbreak” and really if you feel it does, so be it. But using its key: it is a sword. That tells me this card is about reason, analysis, and communication (among others). Next the card is a three, what does the three mean to you? For me threes are about ends and beginnings, new cycles, growth.. Using my own rules of interpretation as a base for this card without letting the imagery affect me yet, I have a card that is about understanding and growth. That does not sound too bad yet! Analysis leading to a new cycle. That sounds good too! So lets add the imagery of the Rider/Waite card using the foundation I established (and I use this rule for all my minor cards (suite, number, imagery, cards around it, and how the person I am reading for reacts to the card. I often ask “what do you see here?” and they almost always focus on one or two bits of information/imagery on a card) back to the topic…The imagery..This card is not about having your heart cut out and broken, it is about understanding the cause of your heartache and growing from it. In my journal I have: Quarrels in a relationship, Cutting to the heart of the matter, releasing pain and understanding your sorrow. Perhaps it is a need to express your sorrow, as swords are about communication, the rain in the background might mean tears, a very healthy release. It could be interpreted as very hurtful, and mean words causing the pain, cold calculated intentional hurt. It might in some cases suggest separation form the heart and emotion through to great of a reliance on logic and reason. So there is some healing in this card, some third person hurts, and a lot of growth and understanding.
I more often then not see it as a card truths, of healing, understanding, and insight.
Still sometimes it just means a broken heart "
minrice said:There is a positive that can be gleaned from the 3 swords, the life lesson that I think many have already mentioned. Sorrow often brings clarity and a time of tremendous personal growth to a level we cannot reach any other way.
a depiction of the union of intellect and feelings ... I just intuitively understod that the deeper meaning (to me) of this card is that union or balance of emotion and intellect is a tough maturity process, that will hurt, but it will also bring experience of life, or maybe even wisdom.