Minor Arcana · Swords · Air
Three of Swords
Thoth: Sorrow
In a reading
A painful truth or loss pierces the heart. Let yourself feel it; that is how it heals.
- Upright
- Heartbreak, grief, painful truth
- Reversed
- Recovery, forgiveness, releasing pain
Correspondences
- Suit
- Swords · element Air
- Thoth title
- Three of Swords: Sorrow
- Golden Dawn title (Book T)
- Lord of Sorrow
- Astrology
- Saturn in Libra (10°–20° Libra, a decan)
- Sephirah
- בינה Binah (3), Understanding
Card image: Pamela Colman Smith, Rider-Waite tarot, 1909 (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).