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Three of Swords

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

On the card

Three swords pierce a red heart against grey cloud and falling rain.

Upright

  • Hurt
  • Plain grief
  • Words that landed

The most literal card in the deck and traditionally read as exactly what it shows: something painful, seen clearly. It does not ask to be explained away.

Reversed

  • Mending
  • Held hurt
  • Releasing

Reversed, the recovering starts — or the hurt is kept sharp because setting it down would mean it was over.

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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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