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The Ten of Swords card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A figure lies face down beneath ten swords along a shore, a black sky above and the first yellow light breaking at the horizon.

Upright

  • Rock bottom
  • Ending
  • Overkill

Ten swords is more than the job needed, and the sky is already turning. Traditionally the bottom of something, with the turn implied in the same picture.

Reversed

  • Recovery
  • Survived
  • Prolonged

Read reversed, the getting up begins — or the ending is drawn out well past the point where it finished.

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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