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The Ten of Swords card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck

Swords

Ten of Swords

rock bottom · the end of it · dawn

Upright

Face down with all ten blades in, and a bright sky at the horizon. The Ten is the definitive end of a bad situation. It's dramatic, it's over, and there is nothing further to lose here — which is its own kind of relief.

Reversed

Reversed, recovery is underway, slowly. Or the drama of the ending is being kept alive because it has become the story you tell.

If this is your card this month

What is so finished that you can finally stop defending it?

A card is a prompt rather than a forecast. It doesn't know what will happen, and the useful part is what you do with the question it hands you. We make that case at more length in not a prediction, a mirror.

Where this card came from

If Ten of Swords arrived on a postcard, it was drawn for you for that full moon, and the reflection on the back was written from what it means. And if it didn't, well — that's the other thing we do here: a card and a reflection in your mailbox every full moon.

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