Nine of Swords Art and Meaning
About the Deck
A modern digital cartoon deck featuring traditional symbolism in a whimsical stick-figure style.
Provenance
Damian Cugley. Web, 2002. Used with permission of the artist.
Meaning of Nine of Swords from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Upright
despair, depression, mental anguish
Reversed
severe depression, cruelty, morbid fantasies
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.