Tarot · Swords
Two of Swords
- indecision
- stalemate
- weighing up
The picture
A blindfolded woman in a white dress sits by the sea, holding two swords crossed over her chest, with a crescent moon above her.
The meaning
The woman holds two swords in balance and does not look. The tradition reads the Two of Swords as indecision, stalemate and weighing up without result. It stands for a situation in which you would rather not choose. The blindfold asks what you do not want to see.
Reversed
Reversed, it is read as the end of hesitation, or pressure that forces a decision.
In love
In love it is read as hesitation, a truce or a feeling you have not admitted to yourself.
At work
At work it stands for a postponed decision and two options of equal weight.
As your card of the day
You need not decide straight away today. But take off the blindfold and look at both sides.
The Two of Swords stands for a stalemate. A talk with someone from outside may help today.
Swords belong to air. Readers see in them thought, decisions and plain words, the uncomfortable ones included.
Picture: Pamela Colman Smith, Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, 1909, public domain (Wikimedia Commons).