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Six of Swordsfor Scorpio · Love and Relationships

Six of Swords tarot card

"Transition isn't the question. What you do next is."

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On the card

A ferryman carrying passengers in his punt to the further shore. The course is smooth, and seeing that the freight is light. Swords represents knowledge and the six card represents harmony. Together the six of swords represents the end of a longstanding issue and the start of a more balanced life.

Upright
TransitionMoving OnLeaving BehindGradual Healing

A journey (perhaps by or near water) offers you a calm break from a turbulent time. You are healing from old wounds. Romantically maybe you have truly moved on from an unhappy relationship (or rough patch) and can now start to heal. At work you might be wrapping up a hard project and having a bit of welcome slower time.

Reversed

Your healing journey is blocked (perhaps you are standing still or perhaps you are moving too fast). Romantically, don't run into a new persons arms or cut yourself off from love completely. Walk with purpose, but allow yourself to take in the wonderful world around you.

Its place in the deck.

Minor ArcanaNumber card
One of the 56 Minor Arcana. They are about what is happening in ordinary life right now. Each belongs to one of four suits, numbered Ace to Ten, plus four court cards.
SuitSwords · Air
Swords are the suit of Air: mind and language. A Swords card is always, underneath, about what you think, and the story you keep retelling yourself.
NumberSix
The numbers tell a story inside each suit, from a seed at the Ace to the full expression at Ten. Six is the recovery: movement after the loss, with the loss still in the room.

Where it shows up.

In the stars
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AirElement
Thoughts, words, and conflict. In tarot: Swords.
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Six of Swords for Scorpio in Love and Relationships

The Transformer

Swords are the air suit, so the Six of Swords sits in Libra. Libra sits directly beside Scorpio, the one relationship a sign cannot see clearly because it is too close to get any distance on. What it asks for is this: write the sentence down and stop rewriting it. The difficulty is noticing it is being asked at all. Upright, the recovery is underway with the loss still in the room.

When reading about relationships through a Scorpio lens, the Six of Swords says that you feel like intimacy is something you test by revealing small secrets and watching what gets repeated (or protected), a gamble where the stakes are everything, and the only way to know if someone stays. This has either led to you building something real with someone who did not flinch, or to you leaving before they could. The thing you're not saying out loud is the thing that matters most. The Scorpio blind spot in it is the feeling of being fooled, or of being seen as naive, or of depending on someone who will leave.

In practice that can look like an argument that had to happen. Whatever form it takes, it is recovering, with the loss still in the room.

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