Minor Arcana · Kılıç Dokuz
Near-fullness and resilience in thought, conflict and truth.
Upright: air, thought, conflict and truth
Reversed: blocked, excess
One seated on her couch in lamentation, with the swords over her. She is as one who knows no sorrow which is like unto hers. It is a card of utter desolation.
Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.
Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911 — public domain.