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Nine of Swords

Minor Arcana · Swords

This is tarot, a different tradition from astrology. The card is drawn at random: nothing in the sky chooses it. It is a prompt for reflection and it predicts nothing.

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Tarot cardMinor Arcana · Swords

Traditionally read as worry in the small hours: anxiety, guilt or dread that grows when one is alone with it. It is associated with a sleepless mind and with fears that are often larger at night than by day.

  • anxiety
  • worry
  • guilt
A question to sit withWhat is the worry actually about, and who could I tell?
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Reversed

What the tradition associates with this card when it falls the other way up.

Reversed, traditionally read as worry that is starting to lose its hold. It is associated with a fear spoken aloud, with reaching out, and in another reading with anxiety kept so private that it grows.

  • easing worry
  • reaching out
  • hidden fear
A question to sit withHow does this concern look in daylight, compared with how it looks at night?

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