Card 53 • swords

Four of Swords

Brief Description

This card signifies the need for rest and recovery from excessive activity and mental strain. It warns that too much intense activity exhausts the body, too many interests drain the mind, and too many adversaries harm the psyche. The core message is to reduce tension and find peace through deliberate withdrawal and restoration.

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Meaning

Intensified activity exhausts the body; too many interests deplete the mind; too many enemies have a harmful effect on the psyche. You must reduce your tension.

Visual Description

A pale figure with white hair lies draped across a broad, gnarled tree branch that arches over a pool of rippling water. The person wears striped red-and-white stockings and appears limp or resting while a cat perches alertly on a higher limb nearby. Curved ladders and two swords lie below near the water’s edge, one blade partially embedded or leaning against the scene. The background is painted in flowing, warm and cool bands of color that give a dreamlike, suspended quality to the tableau.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Cristina Benintende

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