Minor Arcana · Kılıç On
Culmination and completion in thought, conflict and truth.
Upright: air, thought, conflict and truth
Reversed: blocked, excess
A prostrate figure, pierced by all the swords belonging to the card.
Whatsoever is intimated by the design; also pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation. It is not especially a card of violent death.
Advantage, profit, success, favour, but none of these are permanent; also power and authority.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911 — public domain.