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. _Divinatory Meanings_: Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair. _Reversed_: Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.
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. _Divinatory Meanings_: Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness. _Reversed_: Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.
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. _Divinatory Meanings_: 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.
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. _Divinatory Meanings_: Journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient. _Reversed_: Declaration, confession, publicity; one account says that it is a proposal of love.
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, dishonor, loss, with the variants and analogues of these. _Reversed_: The same; burial and obsequies.
The effigy of a knight in the attitude of prayer, at full length upon his tomb. _Divinatory Meanings_: 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.
Three swords piercing a heart; cloud and rain behind. _Divinatory Meanings_: 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.