Swords · Air

Three of Swords

heartache · sorrow · truth

Upright

A painful truth. Heartache that is clean because it is accurate. Let yourself hurt.

Recovery from a wound. The sorrow is releasing, or you are ready to remove one knife.

Separation, a painful honesty, or grief that should not be talked out of the room.

Forgiveness beginning. You do not have to call the hurt nothing.

A disappointing result. Feel it, then separate the fact from the story of failure.

You can work again after a blow. Do not pretend it did not happen.

Upright, this card leans no. Reversed, it leans yes. The leaning is not a command.