Five of Swords

Minor Arcana · Kılıç Beş

Challenge and change in thought, conflict and truth.

Upright: air, thought, conflict and truth

Reversed: blocked, excess

Waite's description

A disdainful man looks after two retreating and dejected figures. Their swords lie upon the ground. He carries two others on his left shoulder, and a third sword is in his right hand, point to earth. He is the master in possession of the field.

Divinatory Meanings

Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonour, loss, with the variants and analogues of these.

Reversed

The same; burial and obsequies.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911 — public domain.

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