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Nine of Swords

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

On the card

A figure sits up in bed with their face in their hands, nine swords ranged on the dark wall behind, a carved panel below.

Upright

  • Worry
  • Sleepless
  • Dread

The swords are on the wall and not in the bed. Traditionally the card of the anxiety that arrives at night and is larger than the day's version of it.

Reversed

  • Easing
  • Naming it
  • Compounded

Reversed, the night ends — the fear said out loud and shrinking — or it doubles back and feeds on itself.

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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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