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The Rider-Waite-Smith card concentrates on the Rest in Peace convention of a religious point of view. Waite portrays a stain glass motif of the Christ above a supine knight carved on a stone sarcophagus. Much like the graves in a medieval church. The resting and peaceful image portray the permanent overtones of death, the end of a thing, as well as the implied meaning of the four of swords; the Lord of Rest From Strife. The Fours of all suites represent making a matter settled and fixed. Despite the image, this is not a death card, the implied meaning is recovery.

The B.O.T.A. Tarot- 4 of Swords, is still using minimalistic art in its "small cards". Here, the 4 Golden/Yellow Swords (air element) are formed in a perfect square, denoting a closed system. Here one is in a secure place that is rest from strife; relief from anxiety, quietness, rest, rest after illness. The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot-Four of Swords, has an image that may be misleading, as this is not a death card.

The Four/4 of Swords represents Chesed in Yetzirah, influencing the Formative Astral world of liquid light.

As you may know, mental creation happens in the fluid light of the Astral World before the manifestation is solidified in the Material World of crystallized light.

In the Qabalah, all of us really are a Yod ( flame or hand/spirit of the Divine Creative)and connected as one Great Intelligence, in the Universal Collective Unconscious. Our individual physical human body is the incarnation for the sensual experience of "dreams", turning information into experienced knowledge. Hence, the physical body is a spiritual sacrament and resides with in the Invisible dreamer/Spirit that makes it live, much as a fish in the Ocean. That Invisible and/or "inner you" is as Jupiter, and in this card, Jupiter is in Libra, dampening the normal destructive Swords. The cutting edges are put to rest or sheathed in the munificent, benevolent and loving nature of Jupiter.

When the 4/four of Swords - is thrown during a reading:

• There is mental understanding of a matter or relationship coming to full resolution on four levels of mental awareness: The Rational, The Emotional of the Unconscious , The Spiritual, and the Subconscious of the Physical.
• A holding pattern after mastering a difficult mental situation.
• Retreat or withdrawal necessary to heal or hide, by creating a protected mental space. 
• Here insight can be generated by seclusion.
• A moment of logic and discriminating intelligence of integrity and planning.

The negatives of this card are often shown by the surrounding cards or if card is reversed, it implies:

•   A bought of illness, in order to recuperate.
•  The intellect is relinquishing control back to the body so that a time out of from problems and solutions are achieved as the body has only one focus of getting better.
• Implications of problems that should not be ignored, listen to the inner self and answers will be restored.

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