Nine of Swords
This card invokes the legend of La Llorona, a mourning spirit whose story embodies profound grief, guilt, and remorse. The swords around her and the frenetic designs of her dress symbolize lingering pain and a fragmented soul. The image of water-saturated garments conveys the sensation of being weighed down by a heavy heart and overwhelmed by sorrow. Divinatory meaning warns of absorbing despair from a stagnant pool of hopelessness and prompts recognition of the need to confront and release that pain.
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Story
In the "weeping woman" Mexican ghost tale, La Llorona was once a happy woman who had won the affections of a wealthy man and had a family with him. But when he abandoned her for another, she fell into a fit of madness and drowned her own children. Having realized her terrible mistake, her inconsolable grief leads her to the riverbanks where she died. Her mournful spirit continues to cry for her lost children. Some fear that she is capable of drowning those who wander too close to riverbanks. The swords surrounding La Llorona are symbols of lingering pain and grief. The frenetic designs of her drab dress symbolize the fragmented soul. Like the water-saturated garments, you feel weighed down by a heavy heart.
Divinatory meaning
You’re absorbing the despair that is lingering in a stagnant pool of hopelessness.
Ghosts and Spirits tarot
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