Properties of 9 of Swords

 

Alternate Names: Cruelty

 

Keywords / Additional Meanings:

An ecclesiastic, a priest; generally, a card of bad omen. Reversed: Good ground for suspicion against a doubtful person.

 

Description:

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 Description:

Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.

 

Astrological / Elemental Correspondence: Mars in Gemini