Ten Of Swords

Card Number: 40

Card Name: Ten of Swords

Core Attributes

• ✨Astrological Correspondences:✨☉ Sun in Gemini
• ✨Element:✨🌬️ Air
• ✨Direction:✨🧭 East
• ✨Numerology:✨1️⃣ 1
• ✨Archetype:✨🎭 The Fallen One, The Ender, The Rock Bottom
• ✨Energy:✨⚡Endings, betrayal, finality, painful closure, release, truth revealed
• ✨Keywords:✨🗝
  • Upright Keywords for The Ten of Swords:
  • Endings
  • Betrayal
  • Loss
  • Painful truth
  • Rock bottom
  • Defeat
  • Collapse
  • Crisis
  • Finality
  • Closure
  • Reversed Keywords for Ten of Swords:
  • Recovery
  • Regeneration
  • Renewal
  • Rising again
  • Lessons learned
  • Healing from betrayal
  • Release of pain
  • Resistance to ending
  • Hope after despair
  • Survival
• ✨Basic Meaning:✨📖 In the upright position, the Ten of Swords represents painful endings, betrayal, and finality. It marks rock bottom, when the only path left is release and surrender. Though difficult, this card also signals closure and the potential for new beginnings once the old cycle ends. In the reversed position, the Ten of Swords indicates recovery, healing, and renewal after hardship. It may reflect the release of pain, lessons learned, or the first steps toward rising again after despair.

Symbols & Associations

• ✨Gemstones:✨💎 Obsidian, Smoky Quartz, Black Tourmaline, Hematite, Amethyst
• ✨Herbs:✨🌿Rue, Wormwood, Sage, Yarrow, Cypress
• ✨Runes:✨ᚠ Hagalaz, Nauthiz
• ✨Tree:✨🌳Cypress, Yew
• ✨Chakra:✨🌀 Root, Solar Plexus

Cultural and Mythological Links

• ✨Deities:✨👑Hecate, Kali, Odin, Anubis
• ✨Sabbats:✨🎃 Samhain
• ✨Archangel:✨👼Azrael, Michael
• ✨Shem Angel:✨🪽 Haamiah, Damabiah
• ✨Native American Totem Animals:✨🦉 Vulture, Crow, Scorpion, Wolf
• ✨I-Ching:✨📜 23 Po – Split Apart
• ✨Tree of Life:✨🌲Malkuth

Additional Details

✨Timing (When it should come about):✨⏳10 days, 10 weeks

✨Season:✨🌷 Late Spring Early Summer

✨Month:✨📅 June

✨Day of the Week:✨🗓 Saturday

✨Time of the Day:✨🌞Midnight

✨Yes/No Answer:✨✅❌ No

✨Count:✨#️⃣ 10

✨Colors:✨🎨 Black, Red, Gray, Indigo

✨Aura Colors:✨🌈 Dark red, Gray, Indigo shadows

✨Moon Phase:✨🌙 Waning Crescent

✨Weather:✨⛅ Storms, Cold winds, Overcast skies

✨Metal:✨⚙️ Lead, Iron

✨Scents:✨🌸 Myrrh, Cypress, Patchouli, Clove

✨Chocolate:✨🍫 Extra Dark Chocolate

✨Candle Type:✨🕯️ Figural Candle

✨Common Associations:✨🔗 Endings, betrayal, pain, loss, rock bottom, crisis, collapse, finality, closure, release, truth revealed, sacrifice, destruction, transformation, recovery, renewal, survival, healing, moving forward after endings, hope through endings

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