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Six of Swords
Minor Arcana · Swords · Air
Upright
- Transition
- Moving away
- Calming
- Journey
- General
- Leaving rough waters. A transition toward calm, a necessary distance, a hard crossing that goes the right way.
- Love & relationships
- Moving away from a painful relationship, or the couple crossing a period of change together.
- Career & money
- A job change, a move, leaving a tense situation. Finances stabilizing after a rough patch.
- Advice
- Accept leaving even if the far shore is still blurry. Calm will come along the way.
Reversed
- Stuck
- Going back
- Emotional baggage
- Cancelled journey
- General
- The boat won't move. Staying in rough waters, carrying too much baggage, or returning to what was fled.
- Love & relationships
- Falling back into a relationship left behind, or past wounds preventing progress.
- Career & money
- A change that doesn't go through, a problem carried from job to job, a move postponed.
- Advice
- Look at what you refuse to leave on the shore. That's often what weighs the boat down.
What you see on the card
- A ferryman poles a small boat
- A veiled woman and a child seated at the front
- Six swords standing upright in the boat
- The water is choppy on one side, calm on the other
- A distant shore ahead
How the card works
Swords (Air). Air is the mind: ideas, words, decisions, but also doubts and quarrels. Swords cut, clarify, and sometimes wound.
Six. Harmony restored: exchange, transition, what flows again.