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Six of Swords |
 A ferryman carrying passengers in his punt to the
further shore. The course is smooth, and seeing that the freight is light, it may be noted
that the work is not beyond his strength. :
journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient. Reversed:
Declaration, confession, publicity; one account says that it is a proposal of love. |
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Seven of Swords |
 A man in the act of carrying away five swords
rapidly; the two others of the card remain stuck in the ground. A camp is close at hand. : Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence; also
quarrelling, a plan that may fail, annoyance. The design is uncertain in its import,
because the significations are widely at variance with each other. Reversed: Good
advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling. |
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Eight of Swords |
 A woman, bound and hoodwinked, with the swords of
the card about her. Yet it is rather a card of temporary durance than of irretrievable
bondage. : Bad news, violent
chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness. Reversed:
Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality. |
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Nine of Swords |
 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. : Death, failure,
miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair. Reversed: Imprisonment,
suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame. |
Ten of Swords |
 A prostrate figure, pierced by all the swords
belonging to the card. :
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. |
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