Rider Waite Swords

The Swords Minor Arcana of The Rider-Waite Deck

The divinatory meanings, keywords, attributes and descriptions for the ten Swords Minor Arcana of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck

2 of Swords – Rider-Waite

2 of Swords – Rider-Waite

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm0C580ngc0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link A hoodwinked female figure balances two swords upon her shoulders. Meanings Conformity, and the equipoise which it suggests, courage, friendship, concord in a state of arms; another reading gives...

3 of Swords – Rider-Waite

3 of Swords – Rider-Waite

Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm0FbNwnJH2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Three swords piercing a heart; cloud and rain behind. Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, and all that the design signifies naturally, being too simple and obvious to...

4 of Swords – Rider-Waite

4 of Swords – Rider-Waite

Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm0IjE6nkV3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The effigy of a knight in the attitude of prayer, at full length upon his tomb. Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb and coffin. It is these last that have suggested...

5 of Swords – Rider-Waite

5 of Swords – Rider-Waite

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm0LLGAlyLH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link 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....

6 of Swords – Rider-Waite

6 of Swords – Rider-Waite

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm0OB9DFJ3u/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Rider-Waite 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....

7 of Swords – Rider-Waite

7 of Swords – Rider-Waite

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm0P2JDnlau/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Rider-Waite 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...

8 of Swords – Rider-Waite

8 of Swords – Rider-Waite

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm2il4LFOTB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link 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. Meanings Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure,...

9 of Swords – Rider-Waite

9 of Swords – Rider-Waite

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm2k2MPF47b/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link 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. Meanings Death, failure, miscarriage,...

10 of Swords – Rider-Waite

10 of Swords – Rider-Waite

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm2o4JFFVxx/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link A prostrate figure, pierced by all the swords belonging to the card. Meanings Whatsoever is intimated by the design; also pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation. It is not especially a card of...