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Four of Swords

Air · Swords
The Four of Swords card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A carved figure lies at rest on a tomb, three swords on the wall above and one beneath, a stained-glass window at the side.

Upright

  • Rest
  • Recovery
  • Pause

This is repose and not an ending — traditionally recovery taken deliberately. It invites you to consider what would happen if you stopped for a while.

Reversed

  • Restlessness
  • Burnout
  • Return too soon

Read reversed, the rest does not take: back at it before healing, or lying still without any of the good of it.

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About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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