The Blood card has a variety of interpretations. Most often, it refers to hard work. It is likely a call for you or someone you know to put more effort into something. Blood can also be asking one to serve something greater than oneself and sacrifice one’s own needs for the demands of the collective.

In other cases, Blood means that you or someone you know are taking an unnecessarily difficult path. Make sure you are not taking the hard road just for the sake of it.

Similarly, Blood can also stand for general pain, struggle, or even guilt. In rarer circumstances, Blood implies violence and greater suffering. Pain is often built into the experience of our human condition, for better or worse; it is often the catalyst to change the course of our life path.

Lastly, Blood symbolizes life force and circulation. Blood fills our bodies and produces our pulse, the beat of life. Filled with tons of information, it is what we are made out of. Blood is also a beautiful symbol of connection and ancestry, passed down from generation to generation.

More Meanings:

Self loathing, the part of the creative process where getting involved is messy but necessary, life, commitment, pact, deep connection to the body, bond, murder, destruction, womanhood, lineage, genetics, "caught red-handed.”