As Master-Card, Three of Spades means a suddenly changed Plan, a Discomfiture.

Influenced by its like suit, a loss.

By a Heart, a sudden Failure, a Doubt or Fear.

By a Diamond, a Breach or Quarrel.

By a Club, a sheer Folly, not to be warned away by a friend.

3 of spades Card title – Trap

Misunderstandings at work or at home.

If reversed – Incompetence and abuse of power.

SWORDS. THREE.

Three swords piercing a heart; cloud and rain behind.

Divinatory Meanings: Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, and all that the design signifies naturally, being too simple and obvious to call for specific enumeration.

Reversed: Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.

Three of spades meaning

By the water, or a very short journey across water.

Note: It is quite unusual to include the Three of spades is the classic American card reading, because it was done with a Piquet deck, which only has 32 cards. The meaning for pip cards 2 through 6 was only added later. If you’d like to get a true Classic American card reading, we advice to discard the 3 of spades and ignore its meaning. 

Three of spades is a Silent card. It is usually omitted from the Traditional French cartomancy  deck. However, if the Fortune teller includes this card in the reading, it means that the cards do not want to tell you the truth. It also reduces the divinatory meaning of the nearby cards.