Five of Swords
Minor Arcana · Swords · Air · Venus in Aquarius
Upright
Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonour, loss, with the variants and analogues of these.
Reversed
The same; burial and obsequies.
The picture
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.
Correspondences
Astrology
Venus in Aquarius
Book T title
Lord of Defeat
Decan
Venus in Aquarius 0-10°
Meanings quoted from A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), public domain. Correspondences follow the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's Book T.