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Six of Swords tarot card meaning: upright and reversed
Swords · Air · VI · transition · moving on · calmer water
Upright meaning
A ferry crossing toward smoother water, swords standing in the boat. Leaving something difficult behind — not dramatically, just steadily. The card acknowledges you are taking some of it with you.
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Six of Swords reversed
Unable to make the crossing, or arriving with all the same problems unpacked.
Reversal does not flip Six of Swords into its opposite. The same force is present but blocked, turned inward, or overdone — which of the three applies is decided by the cards around it. The keywords shift to unable to leave, carrying it along, return.
In love
Moving on from a difficult relationship, or a couple getting through a hard stretch together.
In career and money
A transition to better conditions. Gradual rather than sudden.
Yes or no?
Yes. Drawn in answer to a direct question, this card supports going ahead. Want it read against your actual situation rather than in general? Pull a card here.
The playing-card counterpart: Six of Spades →Swords pair with Spades, and the number stays the same. How cartomancy reads it, its yes or no and its birthdays.Zodiac sign and astrology
A decan card: one third of a sign · Golden Dawn
- Sign
- Aquarius
- Decan
- 2nd · 10°–20° Aquarius
- Planet
- Mercury in Aquarius
- Dates
- January 30 – February 8
- Book T title
- Lord of Earned Success
The astrological pairing is Mercury in Aquarius, where quick thought and speech work through a fixed Air sign’s sustained judgment. Here, transition is read as a considered departure rather than an impulsive break. You might leave a tense workplace after talking through the handover, still turning over difficult conversations but no longer staying to argue them out.
Read with: The Star · The Magician · Five of Swords · Seven of Swords
