The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

Swords
TenA prostrate figure, pierced by all the swords belonging to the card. Divinatory Meanings:
Whatsoever is intimated by the design; also pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation. It is not
especially a card of violent death. Reversed: Advantage, profit, success, favour, but none of these
are permanent; also power and authority.