Five of Swords Tarot card meaning

Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonour, loss, with the variants and analogues of these.

Five of Swords

Tarot card meaning:

Failure, defeat. Degradation. Conquest of others. Unfairness, slander, cruelty, cowardliness.

Arthur E. Waite - The Pictorial Key to the Tarot :

A disdainful man looks after two retreating and dejected figures. Their swords lie upon the ground. He carries two others on his left shoulder, and a third sword is in his right hand, point to earth. He is the master in possession of the field.

Five of Swords card divinatory meanings:

Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonour, loss, with the variants and analogues of these.

Four of Swords

Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit's repose, exile, tomb and coffin. It is these last that have suggested the design.

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Journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient.

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The main concept of the deck is the opposition and interaction of light and darkness. Drawings are filled with sunlight and shadows. The characters on the cards are contemporary people with anxieties and joys that we understand.

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