Eight of Swords
Minor Arcana · Swords · Air · Jupiter in Gemini
Upright
Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.
Reversed
Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.
The picture
A woman, bound and hoodwinked, with the swords of the card about her. Yet it is rather a card of temporary durance than of irretrievable bondage.
Correspondences
Astrology
Jupiter in Gemini
Book T title
Lord of Shortened Force
Decan
Jupiter in Gemini 0-10°
Meanings quoted from A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), public domain. Correspondences follow the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's Book T.