Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, and all that the design signifies naturally, being too simple and obvious to call for specific enumeration.
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Tarot card meaning:
Hermit’s repose. Rest after war. Banishment. Relaxation of anxiety, release from suffering. There will soon be a change for the better. Not a card of death.
Arthur E. Waite - The Pictorial Key to the Tarot :
Four of Swords card divinatory meanings:
Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit's repose, exile, tomb and coffin. It is these last that have suggested the design.
Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonour, loss, with the variants and analogues of these.
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