8 of Mindset: Eight of Swords

The only limitations are in your mind.

The Business Tarot deck

Traditional Rider-Waite

Feeling stuck? You’re not! In business tarot, the Eight of Swords, card 8 of Mindset, is the card of self-limiting beliefs, and it shows up when you feel trapped by a situation that you actually have the power to change.

Business Tarot Meaning

Do what you need to in order to gain your freedom back. This may require endings, moving, leaving a partner, quitting a job, or saying goodbye to a friend who is unhealthy for you. You have the strength to do this.

Make the plans to move forward. The longer you don’t do anything about this situation, the longer you are playing the victim, and that is just not attractive. Indecision is a choice to do nothing. And it’s lame. Just get it over with, like pulling off a bandaid.

Mindset Action Steps

• Do what you need to do to gain your freedom back.
• Make the plans to move forward.
• Face the ending, the move, or the goodbye you have been avoiding.
• Get it over with, like pulling off a bandaid.

Journaling Questions

• Where do I feel stuck, and what is actually true about it?
• What is indecision costing me?
• What is one step toward freedom I can take this week?

Mantras

Traditional Tarot Meaning

The Eight of Swords shows a blindfolded figure, loosely bound, standing among eight swords. It looks like a trap, but the ties are loose: this is feeling stuck more than being stuck.

Astrology & The Tarot

Jupiter in Gemini. Swords are the suit of Air, Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius, the signs of thought, decisions, and communication. Here a big, busy mind goes in circles and talks itself out of its own options.

Planetary Influence

Jupiter, the planet of growth and wider horizons. Jupiter says the world is bigger than this one stuck thought, so zoom out.

Numerology

Eights are about power, movement, and mastery. Your power is still yours, even when a situation says otherwise.

Your Path is Waiting

You have the strength to do this. Make the plan, pull off the bandaid, and take your freedom back. That is the Eight of Swords in business tarot, and you were never as stuck as you felt.