Swords · Minor Arcana
One seated on her couch in lamentation, with the swords over her.
A figure sits up in bed, head in hands, nine swords lined on the wall above. The night is long. The worst of it is not in the room — it is in the mind keeping itself company at three in the morning.
Element
Air
Numerology
9— fulfilment, culmination, wisdom earned, near-end
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One seated on her couch in lamentation, with the swords over her. She is as one who knows no sorrow which is like unto hers. It is a card of utter desolation.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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