Symbolism.
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Boat Crossing the Water: Represents a journey from chaos toward calm — physical, emotional, or spiritual transition.
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Figure Steering the Boat: Guidance, support, or your own inner strength helping you move forward.
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Seated Figures (Often a Woman and Child): Vulnerability, healing, and the need for gentleness during transition.
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Six Upright Swords in the Boat: Bringing lessons, memories, or truths with you — you’re not escaping; you’re transforming.
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Calm Waters Ahead, Rough Waters Behind: The shift from struggle to peace, from confusion to clarity.
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Grey Sky: A quiet, neutral emotional space — not joyful yet, but safe.
The imagery captures the moment when you leave something behind even if the destination is still unknown.
Upright Meaning.
The Six of Swords appears when you are moving on, sometimes reluctantly, from a difficult situation, mindset, or emotional state.
Upright, it signifies:
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Transition to a calmer phase
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Healing after turmoil
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Moving away from conflict or pain
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Emotional or mental recovery
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Leaving a toxic environment
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A journey — literal or symbolic
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Support from someone during a difficult time
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Creating distance to regain clarity
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Quiet progress
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Relief, even if bittersweet
This is the card of gentle forward movement.
Not dramatic, not fast — but steady, necessary, and healing.
It often appears when you’re emerging from a long period of stress or emotional heaviness.
Shadow / Reversed Meaning.
Reversed, the Six of Swords reflects resistance to transition, difficulty leaving something behind, or delays in the healing process.
Shadow meanings include:
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Feeling stuck in old emotions or patterns
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Difficulty moving on
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Being pulled back into drama
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Healing taking longer than expected
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Fear of change or the unknown
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Returning to an unhealthy situation
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Carrying unresolved baggage
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Desiring progress but not taking action
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Clinging to the past
In its deeper shadow:
You might be trying to save something that is already over, or resisting a journey your soul knows is necessary.
Reversed can also indicate:
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Finally confronting what you’ve been avoiding
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A transition that feels chaotic before it becomes peaceful
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