Element: Air
Attributes: Active, male
Season: Autumn
Swords represent logic, the mind and your thoughts. They deal with problems and troubles, planning, communication, ideas, your intellect and how you use it.
Ace of Swords
Represents the creative idea; the sword of truth; gaining clarity; a brilliant idea; justice; mental strength; divine inspiration; quickfire thoughts and ideas.
2 of Swords
Balance and harmony; inner peace; calmness; agreement; compromise; meditation.
3 of Swords
Grief; heartbreak; emotional pain; a parting or ending of a relationship; troubles ahead; emotional disturbance; mental anguish.
4 of Swords
Calling a truce; rest; concord; a pact; agreement; synchronicity; order; taking a break; reconsidering your position.
5 of Swords
Defeatism; arguments; negativity; dissension; discord; troubles, disturbances; feeling defeated; feeling broken.
6 of Swords
Mental clarity; ideas coming together; using logic to find the solution; using your intellect; an inner journey of discovery; an actual journey.
7 of Swords
Feeling ineffectual; delusion; feeling inept; pessimism; subterfuge; theft; theft of ideas; mental procrastination.
8 of Swords
Interference, internal or external; sheer bad luck; being held back; mental blockages; unforeseen obstructions; opposition.
9 of Swords
Mental cruelty; verbal assault; worry; sleepless nights; self-harm; betrayal; suffering; despondency; a turn for the worse; anxiety.
10 of Swords
Ruin; a sudden ending; feeling totally broken; grief; a negative outcome; depression; feeling crushed; the result of wrong choices.
Tarot Court Cards
This group are somewhat complex and require more than just a few keywords to see them expressed with any sense of completeness. I grouped them into their rank and presented them as People, as Events and as Inner Processes in the following posts:
For more thorough and complex tarot card meanings and divinatory definitions, head over to our growing Tarot Card Study Blog where we post the basics, and through the comments section, you add your thoughts, comments and interpretations to the mix creating an eclectic yet thorough collection of tarot card meanings. Written by you, for you.
Catherine
