Tarot Card Meaning: Three of Swords

Three of Swords in a Tarot Card Reading

The three of swords means sorrow, as the swords pierce each heart, with conflict and discord. This heartbreak energy of the three of swords is the energy of constricting saturn being in libra and saturn is exalted in this sign. The swords limit something to give form to something else, by pushing the boundaries of the idea, it is growing and improving it. The process is painful but it is necessary and will be worth the while. This is justice served after a very hard choice. Libra knows how hard it is to make these choices, to cut out the unnecessary and go forward to define and build the new.

Three of Swords is associated with the planet Saturn, this means that the qualities of the planet are embodied in the archtype of the card that correspond to it. Three of Swords is associated with the astrology sign of Libra Three of Swords is the Libra tarot card - click here to read more about the astrology association to tarot.