Swords · Minor Arcana
A ferryman carrying passengers in his punt to the further shore.
A figure and child are ferried across still waters, six swords standing in the hull. The far shore is faint but visible. You are crossing — from grief to healing, from here to there.
Element
Air
Numerology
6— love, responsibility, balance restored, nurture
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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A ferryman carrying passengers in his punt to the further shore. The course is smooth, and seeing that the freight is light, it may be noted that the work is not beyond his strength.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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