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Ten of Swords Tarot Card Meaning

Ten of Swords belongs to the suit of Swords — the air suit of the mind, truth and conflict. Upright it speaks of painful ending, rock bottom, release; reversed, of recovery, slow healing. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's archetype and its astrological correspondence.

Ten of Swords tarot card — hand-illustrated Lunara deck
Minor Arcana · SwordsAirSun in Gemini

Upright meaning

“Whatsoever is intimated by the design; also pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation. It is not especially a card of violent death”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: painful ending, rock bottom, release, surrender, new dawn ahead.

Reversed meaning

“Advantage, profit, success, favour, but none of these are permanent; also power and authority”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: recovery, slow healing, resisting the ending.

The archetype

In the language of the thinking function (discrimination, conflict and truth — the air of the mind): completion — the cycle fulfilled, and the weight of carrying it.

Astrology

Decan: Sun in Gemini. Air triplicity (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius).

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