The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

Swords
EightA 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. Divinatory Meanings: Bad news, violent chagrin,
crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness. Reversed: Disquiet, difficulty,
opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.