Ten of Swords Tarot Card Meaning
Minor Arcana, suit of Swords
rock bottom, a final ending, exhaustion, a new dawn
The card
A man lies face down by a still shore with ten swords in his back, a red cloth across him and a black sky overhead, yet a band of gold light is breaking on the horizon. It is a dramatic picture of something being completely over. The card's quiet message lies in that strip of light: when something is truly finished, there is room for a new day to begin.
Upright meaning
A painful ending hits rock bottom; it is over, and that means dawn can come.
Reversed meaning
Recovery begins, though the urge to keep replaying the ending can linger.
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