Three of Swords
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The Three of Swords is the third card of the suit of swords. The suit is present in Italian, Spanish, and tarot decks.
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Card reading
This card depicts a fundamentally sorrowful experience—tarot readers suggest this may be in the form of a lost relationship, an accidental death, or some other form of not just depression or malaise but deeply emotional sorrow. When the card appears "reversed" in a spread, this is not usually read as meaning the "opposite" of sorrow, but rather a sorrow that is somehow mitigated by its circumstances or that is not as bad as it could have been. It is among the most negative cards within the tarot deck.{{cite book|author=Raven Willowmagic|title=Tarot: Tips of the Trade: Tying It All Together|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_AGWOcHgrcC&pg=PA39|date=15 July 2010|publisher=Raven Willowmagic|isbn=978-1-4536-4855-1|pages=39–40}}