Nine of Swords
The picture · Bright face · Shadow · Way through
Every card has four faces: what the picture shows, the bright face it turns when the situation supports it, the shadow when the same root is overdone or stuck, and the way through that the picture itself draws.
Bolt upright at night, face in hands, nine swords on the wall
The night you finally face the worry
Sleepless inside a story the mind wrote
The swords are on the wall, not in the bed — the real room is unharmed
As your card of the day
If Nine of Swords is the first card you draw today, the day leans toward “The night you finally face the worry”. When it tips toward “Sleepless inside a story the mind wrote”, remember the way the picture draws: The swords are on the wall, not in the bed — the real room is unharmed.
Read Waite's 1911 text and the correspondences
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