When the 8 of Swords comes up in a reading, it usually means that your predicament is a product of your own making or imagination. You have confined yourself to the degree that you are unable to free yourself or even see a way out. In the Anna K version of this card, we see a woman looking at herself in a mirror but she is not seeing her true reflection, she is seeing something else entirely. Her mirrored self is blindfolded and wrapped up in a material that is in both her current world and her mirrored world. In the mirror, she is surrounded by swords with a small path in front of her while outside of the mirror she holds a sword in her hand. Since the swords represent thoughts, the mirrored self suggests that she surrounded by her thoughts, allowing them to confine her while the self on the outside of the mirror has more control of her thoughts since the sword is in her hand. Could it be that she seeing that she is doing it to herself?
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