tarot card meanings · minor arcana · swords

six of swords tarot card, original ink-line art

six of swords — tarot card meaning

The ferried crossing; leaving troubled water with what could be saved.

reversed

The crossing refused; bailing the old boat instead.

two philosophical anchors, cited

Emigration of the mind · Seneca, Letters 28 · after Gummere

“You must change the mind, not the sky - and yet sometimes the crossing is the change.”

The raft is not the shore · Dhammapada (Majjhima spirit) · after Mueller

“The teaching is a raft for crossing over, not for clinging to.”

the question we would ask

What are you carrying in this boat that belongs to the shore you left?

how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.