3 of SwordsThoth Tarot Tarot Meaning

3 of Swords card from the Thoth Tarot tarot deck

Number: 3 of Swords  ·  Arcana: Minor Arcana — Swords

Upright meaning

Sorrow — real melancholy, disruption, and separation, discord sown and mirth found only in forbidden pleasures, though honesty in real dealings still holds.

Reversals in this deck

The Thoth tradition does not read reversed cards. Crowley's system judges a card as well- or ill-dignified from the cards around it and its elemental dignities, so every card here is read upright.

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