FIVE OF SWORDS

• SELF-INTEREST
• DISCORD
• OPEN DISHONOR

• Actions
• Opposing Cards
• Reinforcing Cards
• Description

ACTIONS

• SELF-INTEREST
• setting aside the concerns of others
• looking out for number one
• thinking of your own needs
• knowing you must concentrate on yourself
• encountering selfishness
• indulging in power plays
• gloating
• going for the win-lose result

• DISCORD
• being in a hostile environment
• feeling people are set against each other
• choosing to battle
• having an "us-against-them" mentality
• creating ill will
• experiencing conflict

• OPEN DISHONOR
• losing your moral compass
• letting ends justify means
• sacrificing integrity
• losing sight of what is right
• achieving a dubious victory
• knowing of criminal activity

OPPOSING CARDS: Some Possibilities

• Emperor - following the rules, obeying the law
• Justice - having integrity, doing what is right
• Temperance - working with others, harmony, cooperation
• Six of Cups - innocent, well-intentioned, kind

REINFORCING CARDS: Some Possibilities

• Five of Wands - discord, people set against each other
• Seven of Wands - conflict
• Seven of Swords - dishonor, separation from others

DESCRIPTION

The Five of Swords is about self-interest. Society tells us to think of others, yet we resist. How we can ignore our own concerns and still survive? This dilemma comes from our definition of self. If we view our self as our personality/body, our interests become those that relate to that self.

In readings, the Five of Swords can mean that you or someone else is forgetting this larger view of self. You are defining your interests too narrowly. If you try to get ahead in isolation, your actions will come back to haunt you later, one way or the other.

The Five of Swords also represents hostility - from a cross word to warfare. When the cords that bind us are broken, we experience dis-cord. This card can signify dishonors that are fairly open. Cheats, lies, tricks, deceits, even crimes. You may be on the receiving end, or be the perpetrator. Either way, hold to a larger view of who you are. Find the solution that is best for everyone...including yourself.

• TAROT CARDS
• TAROT CARDS: SWORDS
• Tarot cards, swords: ace of swords;
• Tarot cards, swords: two of swords;
• Tarot cards, swords: three of swords;
• Tarot cards, swords: four of swords;
• Tarot cards, swords: five of swords;
• Tarot cards, swords: six of swords;
• Tarot cards, swords: seven of swords;
• Tarot cards, swords: eight of swords;
• Tarot cards, swords: nine of swords;
• Tarot cards, swords: ten of swords;
• Tarot cards, swords: page of swords;
• Tarot cards, swords: knight of swords;
• Tarot cards, swords: queen of swords;
• Tarot cards, swords: king of swords;