Swords · Minor Arcana
A prostrate figure, pierced by all the swords belonging to the card.
A figure lies face-down with ten swords in his back, and yet — behind him, the dawn is breaking. This is not death. It is the end of a long dying.
Element
Air
Numerology
10— endings and beginnings, cycles complete, legacy
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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Ten of Swords by life area
A prostrate figure, pierced by all the swords belonging to the card.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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