Swords · Minor Arcana
A woman, bound and hoodwinked, with the swords of the card about her.
A bound and blindfolded figure stands among eight swords. The ropes are loose. The path out is visible from above.
Element
Air
Numerology
8— mastery, achievement, momentum, material strength
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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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.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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