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Ace of Swords |
 A hand issues from a cloud, grasping as word, the
point of which is encircled by a crown. :
Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest, triumph of force. It is a card of
great force, in love as well as in hatred. The crown may carry a much higher significance
than comes usually within the sphere of fortune-telling. Reversed: The same, but
the results are disastrous; another account says--conception, childbirth, augmentation,
multiplicity. |
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Two of Swords |
 A hoodwinked female figure balances two swords
upon her shoulders. : Conformity and
the equipoise which it suggests, courage, friendship, concord in a state of arms; another
reading gives tenderness, affection, intimacy. The suggestion of harmony and other
favourable readings must be considered in a qualified manner, as Swords generally are not
symbolical of beneficent forces in human affairs. Reversed: Imposture, falsehood,
duplicity, disloyalty.oncord, sympathy, the interrelation of the sexes, and--as a
suggestion apart from all offices of divination--that desire which is not in Nature, but
by which Nature is sanctified. |
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Three of Swords |
 Three swords piercing a heart; cloud and rain
behind. : Removal, absence, delay,
division, rupture, dispersion, and all that the design signifies naturally, being too
simple and obvious to call for specific enumeration. Reversed: Mental alienation,
error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion. |
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Four of Swords |
 The effigy of a knight in the attitude of prayer,
at full length upon his tomb. :
Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit's repose, exile, tomb and coffin. It is these last
that have suggested the design. Reversed: Wise administration, circumspection,
economy, avarice, precaution, testament. |
Five of Swords |
 A disdainful man looks after two retreating and
dejected figures. Their swords lie upon the ground. He carries two others on his left
shoulder, and a third sword is in his right hand, point to earth. He is the master in
possession of the field. :
Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonour, loss, with the variants and
analogues of these. Reversed: The same; burial and obsequies. |
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