SWORDS. NINE.
One seated on her couch in lamentation, with the swords over her. She is as one who knows no sorrow which is like unto hers. It is a card of utter desolation.
Divinatory Meanings:
Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.
Reversed:
Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.
SWORDS. EIGHT.
A woman, bound and hoodwinked, with the swords of the card about her. Yet it is rather a card of temporary durance than of irretrievable bondage.
Divinatory Meanings:
Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.
Reversed:
Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.
