Nine of Swords
Nine of Swords — the suit of air, of thought, conflict and trouble.
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.
Divinatory meaning
Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.
Reversed
Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame. [Illustration]
From The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, A. E. Waite, page 56 of the library’s copy. The words are Waite’s.
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