Eight of Spades meaning
Eight of spades is the card of sickness. In the earlier ages this terrible card was an omen for plague, injuries and infections that were invariably fatal. With the advance of the modern medicine it became less dangerous. In essence, the Eight of spades is a warning. It means that an illness is coming your way and you should take better care of your health.
Detailed meanings for the Eight of Spades
Traditional French cartomancy: Disease and addiction
EIGHT OF SPADES
Card of illness, disease and addiction. Not as bad as the Nine of Spades, but this Eight is a very bad card.
Crying, discord, annoyance, heartache, missed love, obstacles, infections; this card is fertile with awful predictions.
The Eight of Spades, having on the right a
Spade: Sickness after an accident outside.
Heart: Illness of a friend.
Diamond: Dubious contracts. – Discord with business partners.
Club: Sickness for the consultant, not dangerous and of short duration.
Having on the left a
Spade: Crying and tears. – Domestic sorrows. Obstacles to anything you want.
Heart: Missed love or marriage. Somebody else married the man or the woman that was your perfect fit and the opportunity is gone forever. – Friction with a friend or relative.
Diamond: Sadness. – Complicated birth.
Club: Monetary losses. – Misery.
EXCEPTIONS.
Placed between two spades: Certain, short and not dangerous disease.
Near the Nine of Spades: Violent death of a friend. – Madness. – The other card touching the Eight of Spades is null; it does not speak
Between any two face cards: Adversity.
Classic American cartomancy: Sickness
Eight of Spades—Upright.
This card is ordinarily of bad import, as its primary signification is sickness, although it is more generally interpreted as bad news. This is its acceptation when preceded by the knave of spades or the knave of diamonds, or when accompanied by the ace of diamonds, and sometimes by the eight of hearts, reversed.
When this card signifies sickness, its synonyms are:
Illness of the body, soul or mind; bad condition of health or of business; derangement; infirmity; epidemic; gangrene; agony; displeasure; damage; mishap; accidental injury; disaster; indisposition; head-ache; heart-ache; inquietude; melancholy; medicine; remedy; charlatan; empiric; physician; quack; languor.
Sometimes, however, this card is employed to designate prudence, whence we have as secondary significations:
Wisdom; reserve; circumspection; reticence; discernment; foresight; presentiment; prediction; divination;
prophecy; horoscope; second sight; clairvoyance.
Eight of Spades—Reversed. Unlike other cards, the reversal of this one brings with it a modification of its primary significations. Hence, when coming out reversed, it most generally signifies ambition, a passion for which we have synonyms as follows:
Desire; wish for; search after; cupidity; jealousy; aspiration; onward; higher; illusion; pride.
Another primary signification bestowed upon this card when emerging reversed, is that of a nun or pious woman, whence we derive the secondary signification usually applied to this card and expressed in the synonyms:
Inaction; peace; tranquillity; repose; apathy; inertia; stagnation; rest from labor; pastime, recreation; nonchalance; free from care; idleness; supineness; lethargy; torpidity.
Conservative British cartomancy: Illness
Eight of Spades As Master-Card means an Illness.
By a high influencing card of the suit, a long Illness: by a lower, a shorter one.
By a Heart an illness to Another dear to one.
By a Diamond, a Misfortune in an affair.
By a Club – an Accident.
Sibylle des salons cartomancy: Illness
8 of spades Card title – Illness
Approaching sickness. Sadness. Loss of money in gambling or investments.
If reversed – Minor ailments. Missed obvious opportunity. Poor judgement.
The American (Rider-Waite) tarot: Crisis
SWORDS. EIGHT.
A woman, bound and hoodwinked, with the swords of the card about her. Yet it is rather a card of temporary durance than of irretrievable bondage.
Divinatory Meanings: Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.
Reversed: Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.
Five interesting questions about Eight of Spades that people asked in May
- “He doesn’t love me anymore how to move on?” — Kayla
- “Is he gonna ask me out? I don’t think 8 of spades is the right about me.” — Sara
- “Should I start with tarot or oracle?” — Mary
- “Why does she always leave me? It feels like I am cursed.” — Joe
- “Why would he unfriended me on facebook? Is this a sign that it is over?” — Carol
Eight of Spades meaning in a card spread. Try the original Cardarium readings.
Cartomancy is never based on the interpretation of a single card. It is the interplay of the cards that creates the most interesting insights.
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