The Five of Swords Tarot Card Meaning: Upright and Reversed Meanings & Breakdowns
The Five of Swords Tarot Card Keywords
Upright Keywords
Overthinking, Negative self-thoughts/talk, Miscommunication, Wrong end of the stick
Reversed Keywords
Speaking up for oneself, Being kinder to oneself, Clear communication, Communicating boundaries
The Five of Swords Tarot Meaning
The Five of Swords tarot meanings can take us into the inner environment of our own psyche. This means it can show us what conflicts and wars are raging inside our own minds. Maybe we have a whirlwind of negative self-talk happening, maybe we’re lying to ourselves in order to protect a dream or desire we have. Whatever it may be, it can feel like a war of push and pull inside the mind.
A common way to read the Five of Swords is a betrayal, and many will see this as the person asking the question facing some sort of betrayal from a third party, but we can also betray ourselves.
If there’s something we need but we choose something that goes against that need, that is a self-betrayal. If you pretend to be something or someone you’re not, that too is a self-betrayal. The Five of Swords represents this disconnection with the self and shows us when we are not being truthful, whether it be to who we are or to others in our environment.
