Ten of Swords

UPRIGHT

A figure lies face-down with ten swords in his back, the sky black above and a faint dawn rising at the horizon. The Ten of Swords is the bottom — the final blow, the end of a long unraveling, the situation that has finished collapsing. It hurts, and it is over. The dawn is part of the card.

REVERSED

Reversed, the Ten of Swords is the recovery beginning, or the collapse refused even now. The card can name a person who has begun to rise from the wreckage, or one who keeps adding swords to a back that already holds ten. The dawn is still coming either way; the question is whether the querent will lift their face to see it.

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