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Swords



5 of Swords

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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.

Divinatory Meanings: Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonour, loss, with the variants and analogues of these.

Reversed: The same; burial and obsequies.





 
 



RWS Tarot by A.E. Waite & Pamela Colman-Smith
Pictorial Key to the Tarot
Text by A.E. Waite
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