Swords · Minor Arcana
The effigy of a knight in the attitude of prayer, at full length upon his tomb.
A knight lies effigy-still in a stone chapel, three swords above him, one at his side. This is not death. This is the retreat that precedes return.
Element
Air
Numerology
4— stability, foundation, order, manifestation
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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Four of Swords by life area
The effigy of a knight in the attitude of prayer, at full length upon his tomb.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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