Four of Swords

Minor Arcana · Kılıç Dört

Stability or pause in thought, conflict and truth.

Upright: air, thought, conflict and truth

Reversed: blocked, excess

Waite's description

The effigy of a knight in the attitude of prayer, at full length upon his tomb.

Divinatory Meanings

Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit's repose, exile, tomb and coffin. It is these last that have suggested the design.

Reversed

Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.

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

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