Nine of Swords Tarot card meaning

Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.

Nine of Swords

Tarot card meaning:

Suffering, loss, misery. Burden, oppression. Doubt and desolation. Illness. May mean death of a loved one.

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

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.

Nine of Swords card divinatory meanings:

Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.

Eight of Swords

Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.

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Ten of Swords

Whatsoever is intimated by the design; also pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation. It is not especially a card of violent death.

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