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Two of Swords Tarot Card Meaning
The Two of Swords tarot card means indecision, stalemate and a difficult choice. A stalemate and a hard choice.
Upright
- Indecision
- stalemate
- a difficult choice
Reversed
- A decision made
- information overload
- truth revealed
Yes or no
Maybe
The Two of Swords is one of the 14 cards in the suit of Swords. Swords are the suit of air: thought, truth, words and conflict.
What the card shows
A blindfolded woman in white sits on a stone bench with two long swords crossed over her chest. Behind her is a sea dotted with rocks under a crescent moon.
This is the card as drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which is in the public domain.
Upright meaning
The Two of Swords is read as a stalemate. There are two options, and choosing is being avoided, sometimes by refusing to look. It asks you to take off the blindfold.
Two of Swords reversed
Reversed, it is read as the deadlock breaking, or being pulled in too many directions to choose.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, the Two of Swords is usually read as a maybe: the answer depends on something not settled yet. Readers differ on some cards, so treat this as one common reading. You can ask a yes or no question and draw a card for it.
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