The Three of Swords Tarot Card Meaning: Upright and Reversed Meanings & Breakdowns
The Three of Swords Tarot Card Keywords
Upright Keywords
Disillusioned, Receiving what’s best, Healing and Seeking support
Reversed Keywords
Let Down, Trauma, Refusing to move on and Inner Conflict
The Three of Swords Tarot Meaning
The Three of Swords tarot card meanings can often be read as fairly negative, but there’s something that leans more towards healing than heartbreak. The Three of Swords is definitely a lesson that ‘you can’t always get what you want’, and although that stings at the time, it’s something we often learn from and move on to bigger and better things.
As this is a sword card, the conflicting thoughts and feelings the Three of Swords brings up tend to take place within one’s own mind. It can be that we have conflicting views or ideas, maybe our heart is telling us one thing while our head screams out for something else.
Threes in the minor arcana refer to collaboration in some form, but with an air suit like the swords, this can sometimes create more disruption than clarity. Often with the Three of Swords we have to take a step back and see the bigger picture to really be able to find an answer or see things for what they are and not what we want them or feel like we need them to be.
