Three of Swords

Keywords- heartache, going against will

Appearance- The appearance of this card is with three swords piercing a heart. There is seen clouds and heavy rains in the background which also looks stormy.

Meaning-

Sharp intellect cutting the heart, either of people concerned about in the reading or your own as your mind may be over powering your hearts desires and are feeling discontented with the decisions that you take this way. This card may appear even if you are about to take such a decision this way, you may suffer long term dissatisfaction out of this kind of decision making.

You may find people around that are breaking your heart, your desires are always kept unfulfilled, this feeling will leave you shattered. You may be giving too much and getting too less then in return. When you feel this happening in your life there lie deeper problems with your self acceptance or self-doubt in decisions you make. When you don't accept your self in a certain way, then you will find people around you who will treat you this way. There maybe some past mistakes in taking decisions that are now making you doubt your intelligence.

In life you will continuously face problems surrounding you, that reflect problems that lie within you. You doing something wrong with you will slowly start showing up in your background. And when you don't treat the problem in the nip it will take a bigger wider form and then you willl find people treating you very very harshly cutting you away from your heart's desire.

We do this kind of behaviour with self because we don't know how to accept us when we do mistakes, we usually treat us stone heartedly as we are taught since childhood to feel guilty or not to be too self centered. But in life, we are the most important person and attention and care needs to be given to us too. We do mistakes but need to be forgiven.

The more you have pierced your heart, you will find people doing it to you at the same degree. Or if we take this card literally, it also points out "heart surgery" or any kind of physical damage/mending to the heart.

Reversed-

The Reverse of this card is a bit lighter and gives a relief-giving message to the querent. The querent might have moved away from a situation where he was cutting his own will.
You have brought end to tough relations that kept hurting you, the decision indeed was difficult to take and put into practise; you did it and now will be rewarded with better exchanges. Life changes when you decided to make your life better by cutting away the unwanted relationships, that clutters your mind.

You when move away from unwanted relationships, the void created by them is replaced by relationships that you need now to grow positively further, as its your decision to live a better life by giving away trouvblesome relationships.

This card also shows healing of the heart physically and emotionally from a tough time. This card may also show that such a situation was dreaded but luckily it was avioded by you. The actual meaning also depends on the spread and cards sourrounding this card.
A heart-ache is recently relieved or a sense of moving ahead from a heart ache is felt by you.