Six of Swords
Minor Arcana · Swords · number 6 · Sei di Spade
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The Six of Swords is a ferryman carrying a woman and a child towards the far shore, over waters growing calm: a journey by water, a route, a way, an envoy who helps you, an expedient that works. If these days you are leaving a difficult situation, a move, a change of job, a painful phase, it is no accident: the card says the crossing is feasible and the load is light. The swords stay in the boat, but they no longer wound you. The practical advice: accept being accompanied. You do not have to row alone, and the shore ahead is calmer.
Source: Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910) · read the original passage
Reversed
Reversed, the Six of Swords stops and speaks: declaration, confession, publicity. What was kept hidden gets said, and one reading, Waite adds, sees a proposal of love. If these days you feel the need to confess something, a feeling, a mistake, a truth that weighs on you, it is no accident: the boat will not leave until you have spoken. In love it may be a declaration arriving or one you must make; at work, news that goes public. Mind how and to whom you say it. The practical advice: choose your words with care, say them in person, and accept that afterwards there is no going back.