Nine of Swords Tarot Card Meaning and Art Visconti B Tarot Deck Fragment
Designation
About the Deck
Visconti B Tarot Deck Fragment
(aka Pierpont Morgan Bergamo Tarot Deck) One of the earliest Tarot Decks, the Pierpont Morgan Deck is entirely gilded, with fine paintings upon it.
It is estimated to have been produced around 1451 or 1452, possibly for a triumphal event in 1453.
Provenance
Italy, c. 1452.
Tags
swords-9, nine-of-swords, nine, swords
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.
