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Six of Swords

Air · Swords
The Six of Swords card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A ferryman poles a boat carrying a cloaked figure and a child, six swords upright in the hull, the water rough on one side and smooth on the other.

Upright

  • Passage
  • Moving on
  • Calmer water

The swords come along — traditionally a departure that carries what happened with it, toward easier water. It is a leaving that is sad and right at once.

Reversed

  • Stuck
  • Baggage
  • Reluctant

Read reversed, the crossing stalls: the same water, or a move made without any of it actually being left behind.

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About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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