Nine of Swords
This card represents overwhelming fear and anxiety rather than actual danger. It depicts the experience of being paralyzed by nightmares and terrors that seem insurmountable, when one feels unprepared to face life's challenges. The card suggests that many fears are magnified in the darkness of uncertainty, and encourages facing reality in daylight rather than fleeing from it. It symbolizes the dark night of the soul, where helplessness and terror consume one's ability to move forward confidently.
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The Lost Child's Terror
Lost in the forest, a boy hides as carefully as possible among the tree roots and prays, hoping that nothing will happen to him before morning. Everything he sees and hears terrifies him. He cannot distinguish real threats from simply unfamiliar things. Glowing eyes, creeping footsteps, screams—oh, he shouldn't have ventured into the forest at night. Now he has no choice but to wait until morning. Time drags slowly as he trembles helplessly in his dubious shelter.
The Nature of Fear
This card is not really about threats—it's about fear. It's about nightmares you cannot prevent, and you can only endure them. In such moments, your fears multiply faster than you can drive them away. The most frightening thing about the night forest is that you cannot move confidently, since you never know what might be waiting nearby. You are frightened because you are unprepared or unable to cope with the trials. Face reality during the day so you don't have to run from it at night.
Brief Meaning
Fear. Nightmares. Helplessness. Dark night of the soul.
If You Look Closely
The card shows nine 'fears': bats, glowing eyes, a creepy animated tree, a frightening night moth, poisonous mushrooms with glossy blueberry caps, extremely poisonous nightshade berries, a goblin, a rove beetle, and a huge spider. Next to the boy, you can also see a little mouse—squeaky but harmless.
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