Small cards, Swords
Three of Swords
Sorrow
A difficult recognition can interrupt the account you wanted to believe. Give the experience time and honest language without turning one wound into a rule about everything.
What truth needs room alongside the pain?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Saturn in Libra
- Suit element
- Air
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Binah
- Ten-degree span
- 10-20 Libra
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. 182 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Three 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
A central sword divides the rose; its petals fall between three blades.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 182 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Sorrow.
The account centres on interruption, separation and discord. It also includes fidelity and honesty among the possibilities, with the reading qualified by the surrounding cards.
Thoth: Three 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.