tarot card meanings · minor arcana · swords
nine of swords — tarot card meaning
The three a.m. sitting; anguish rehearsing tomorrow in the dark.
reversed
The nightmare named and measured; dawn arithmetic.
two philosophical anchors, cited
Suffering in imagination · Seneca, Letters 13 (tr. Gummere)
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
The unguarded mind · Dhammapada, v.42 (tr. Mueller)
“Whatever a hater may do to a hater, a wrongly-directed mind will do us greater mischief.”
the question we would ask
Of tonight's nine fears, how many existed at noon?
how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.