Eight of Swords: Yes or No
What answer the Eight of Swords card gives to a yes or no question: “maybe”, and how to treat it.
Author: Max Raputum, Warsaw
The answer of Eight of Swords: “Maybe”
The Eight of Swords is a sense of a trap made of your own thoughts. In a yes or no spread this is “maybe”: there is a way out, but you do not see it yet.
What the answer depends on
The answer depends on your beliefs. If you consider yourself trapped, the answer is “no”; if you check the facts, it may become “yes”.
If the card is reversed
Reversed, the answer is “Maybe”. The reversed Eight leaves the answer at “maybe”: you begin to see a way out and take off the blindfold.
What to do next
Write out the limits and mark which of them are real and which exist only in your thoughts.
The answer in questions of love and work
If the question is about feelings: The Eight of Swords in love is a trap made of your own thoughts: you feel bound, although there is a way out. If the question is about work: The Eight of Swords at work is a sense of a trap: it seems there is no way out, but the limits are mostly in the head.
How to check the answer
Check the answer with three questions: is there “limitations” in my situation? Is the lack of “a feeling of being trapped” getting in my way? What am I missing if I look through the theme of “fear”?
About the Eight of Swords card
Eight of Swords is a card of the suit of Swords, element air. The keywords of the card: limitations, a feeling of being trapped, fear, self-blocking. In questions about a choice or a decision it works through its key themes, not through specific events. The general interpretation upright and reversed is on the page of the card.
The Eight of Swords card in other questions
Frequently asked questions
Is the Eight of Swords card a yes or a no?
In a yes or no spread the answer is “Maybe”. The Eight of Swords is a sense of a trap made of your own thoughts. In a yes or no spread this is “maybe”: there is a way out, but you do not see it yet.
What does Eight of Swords reversed mean in a yes or no answer?
The answer is “Maybe”. The reversed Eight leaves the answer at “maybe”: you begin to see a way out and take off the blindfold.
What does the answer of Eight of Swords depend on?
The answer depends on your beliefs. If you consider yourself trapped, the answer is “no”; if you check the facts, it may become “yes”.