tarot card meanings · minor arcana · swords

ten of swords tarot card, original ink-line art

ten of swords — tarot card meaning

The lowest point, oversubscribed; the drama of the end - and the dawn behind it.

reversed

Recovery beginning; refusing the encore of the collapse.

two philosophical anchors, cited

The end of the play · Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.36 (spirit) · after Long

“The drama is complete when its author ends it - exit with grace, the sun already rising.”

Contraries turn · Daodejing, ch. 40 · after Legge

“Returning is the movement of the Dao - the extreme point is where reversal begins.”

the question we would ask

What becomes possible now that the worst has finished happening?

how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.