Nine of Swords
The Nine of Swords indicates intense mental anguish, anxiety, and sleeplessness driven by focus on negative thoughts and doubts. It describes a demoralized state, with mental pain, heavy doubts, and uncertainty about the future as problems are often exaggerated. The card warns against excessive concentration on dark thoughts and the tendency to magnify real issues. In reversal, it points toward the dawn of relief, hope, and the return of peace.
Keywords
Keyword
NIGHTMARE
Description
This card signals a feeling of constant anxiety, insomnia, despondency, and stress. Demoralized state, focus on negative emotions. Mental pain, heavy doubts, uncertainty about the future. Excessive concentration on dark thoughts, exaggeration of real problems.
Upright
anxiety, depression, anguish
Reverse
dawn, hope, peace
Visual Description
A lone figure sits curled on snow with their head in their hands, long gray hair falling forward and bare feet exposed. They wear a blue robe patterned with yellow triangles and decorative borders. Nine swords hang in an arc above the seated person, blades pointing down toward them. In the background are snow-covered pine trees beneath a cold, green-blue sky.
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