Nine of Swords Tarot Card Meaning and Art Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Designation
About the Deck
Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Pivotal and canonical, this deck defined a new pattern that would be followed up to the present. I made a digitally retouched and painted version of this deck, which I call the "Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck". The cards from that deck, as well as a modern English translation of the romantic English descriptions by Arthur Edward Waite (as appear on the Waite Smith Tarot deck) appear in a cross-referenced format in my book, "A Concise Guide to the Tarot: In Vivid Color"
Provenance
Designed by A.E. Waite and Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. England, 1911.
Tags
swords-9, nine-of-swords, nine, swords
Description
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.Meaning of Nine of Swords from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Upright
Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.
Reversed
Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Duration of hatred.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
An ecclesiastic, a priest; generally, a card of bad omen.
Reversed
Good ground for suspicion against a doubtful person.
Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings
Successful voyages. Commercial enterprises. Faithfulness. Illusions. Flirtations.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
An Ecclesiastic, a Priest, Conscience. Probity, Good Faith, Integrity
Reversed
Wise distrust, Suspicion, Fear, Doubt, Shady character.
P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
A bad omen, news of failure or death
Reversed
loss of one near and dear by death.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
temptation to infidelity; the temptation is withstood.
