The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

Swords
NineOne 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 Meanings: Death, failure,
miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair. Reversed: Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt,
reasonable fear, shame.