Small cards, Swords
Eight of Swords
Interference
Too many small corrections can obscure the main task. Identify the interruption that matters most, and let lesser details wait until the central work can move.
Which complication is actually preventing progress?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Jupiter in Gemini
- Suit element
- Air
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Hod
- Ten-degree span
- 0-10 Gemini
Sources
The numbered cards combine a sphere, a suit element, and a planetary decan. The Ace begins at Kether; Two through Ten follow the numbered spheres. These are symbolic correspondences, not a birth chart.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 198 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Eight of Swords ↗
Spans use a starting boundary inclusive and an ending boundary exclusive. Older texts may describe the same interval with ordinal degree numbers.
Symbols
In the Book T design
Four hands hold eight swords whose tips converge near the top.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 198 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Shortened Force.
Attention becomes concentrated on details at the expense of the central task. Careful study and patience remain possible, but effort is restricted or directed toward matters too small for it.
Thoth: Eight of Swords.
Book T’s title is shown separately from the Thoth name. The symbol note below describes the 1912 text, whose design can differ from Harris’s painting.