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Nine of Swords Tarot Card Meaning
The Nine of Swords tarot card means anxiety, worry and sleepless nights. Worry and sleepless nights.
Upright
- Anxiety
- worry
- sleepless nights
Reversed
- Hope returning
- reaching out
- facing the fear
Yes or no
No
The Nine of Swords is one of the 14 cards in the suit of Swords. Swords are the suit of air: thought, truth, words and conflict.
What the card shows
A person sits up in bed with their face in their hands. Nine swords hang in a row on the dark wall behind. The quilt is patterned with roses and signs of the zodiac.
This is the card as drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which is in the public domain.
Upright meaning
The Nine of Swords is read as worry, the three-in-the-morning kind. The fears are real to the person, and usually bigger in the dark than in daylight. It asks you to talk to someone.
Nine of Swords reversed
Reversed, it is read as worry easing, asking for help, or facing what you were dreading.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, the Nine of Swords is usually read as a no, often in the sense of not now or not this way. Readers differ on some cards, so treat this as one common reading. You can ask a yes or no question and draw a card for it.
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