Ten of Swords
Minor Arcana · Swords · Air · Sun in Gemini
Upright
Whatsoever is intimated by the design; also pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation. It is not especially a card of violent death.
Reversed
Advantage, profit, success, favour, but none of these are permanent; also power and authority.
The picture
A prostrate figure, pierced by all the swords belonging to the card.
Correspondences
Decan
Sun in Gemini 20-30°
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.