Nine of Swords
Minor Arcana · Swords · Air · Mars in Gemini
Upright
Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.
Reversed
Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.
The picture
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.
Correspondences
Book T title
Lord of Despair and Cruelty
Decan
Mars in Gemini 10-20°
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.