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The Rider-Waite-Smith Ten of Swords concentrates imagery on the Divinatory meaning of the TEN OF SWORDS that is, ruin, death, failure, and disaster. There is obvious death shown, with the ten swords sticking out of the individuals back. Since this card is in MALKUTH (Earth) it is more of a death card than Key 13-DEATH, of the Major Arcana. DEATH, key 13, is more of a situational death, a transformation of personality, whereas the 10 of Swords, is a "personal disaster" waiting to happen. When and if this card shows up in the "house and Home" or "Beneath you" position in a Celtic Cross reading, get a thorough physical checkup from your doctor and focus on your physical and mental health. You may just need a "personality tune-up" but take no chances for its time to pay attention to how you perceive the world as perception becomes your life direction. As spirit, you are a Life Force who builds Lifetimes. Hence, Lifetimes are a measured motion and have a beginning and an end.

However, fear not as 10's are notoriously short lived, as they are the end of a cycle, and soon a new cycle begins. So, a 10 of Swords card, can also mean, the pain you are going through now is on the mend, especially if you are recovering from a physical or mental injury, where your movement has suffered a "ruin", but by focused perspective, you are aiding your recovery. A 10 is 1+ 0=1, which is the number of Kether, on the Tree of Life. Thus, a cycle of the Tree ends, and a new one "down the Tree" begins.

The Connolly Tarot -10 of Swords keeps to medieval stain glass art and implies you have been surrounded by 10 swords and/or negative thoughts. Swords represent the Air Universal element that is attributed to the Mind. Although the woman seems to have a pleasant expression, this card represents extreme unhappiness, depression, and a deep sense of loss.   The weight of it all seems insurmountable and you are struggling to survive. You are going through a soul-crushing event and your world seems to be ending. Sometimes, only a meaningless distraction feels like it will help. However, the pain will end, and you will become a stronger person, having survived it.

Since, by focusing our thoughts, we have the capacity to improve or putrefy our life-motion, we should pay attention to our "psychosomatic" universe of Spirit, Mind and Body. Such as the use of Tarot to communicate with your high forces of mind, for ethically this is no less moral than resigning a position when one sees what a work is- related disaster on the horizon. What moral is broken, when one is told by the cards," that if you walk in the street, you will be struck by a motor vehicle", and that person now chooses to walk on the sidewalk instead? Divination helps us make focused choices. We should use the capacities we are given, as we are not Slaves of any fate outside of our own making. So, when the 10 of Swords is in a reading, there could also be a warning that our thoughts are ill, and they will soon impact the body as "illness". The word "Psycho" means exhibiting unstable and aggressive behavior and the word "Soma" is a medical term for the body. Hence, psychosomatic behavior is an emotional/mental attack on the body. The inner world of Mind creates the outer world of body. Therefore, it is time to change your perspective on Self and thereby, change your fate.

However, this freedom to control our fate requires us to "Above all things, know thyself", and to be an Active Personality of Spirit, rather than a Reactive Personality of a false ego made by environmental and body fears. A reactionary presence that is controlled by peers, or cultural definitions, creates our destiny as that of Ruin, as our performance is always "after the facts" and much too late to change the effect that has caused our pain.

Therefore, the 10 of Swords implies, the Horse is already out of the barn, and closing the door (repressing the thought/emotion) is a band-aid, not a solution. Something that our governments are slow to learn.

It's best to focus on what you are thinking, pay attention! For your thoughts create no other persons, nor their definition, as Your thoughts are the operating fulcrum of your Life-Motion, they create your fate!

As scientists and engineers know, for a fulcrum to operate efficiently, a rigid base is a necessity. Thus, a "personality", which is a mechanism of the ego, that is formed on fears, becomes a personal mental Fulcrum which is supported by dysfunctional energy in motion (emotion) and therefore, must devote most of its energy trying to hammer out a permanent way of movement (overcome negative thought) while trying to overcome the counter motion of a "wobbling base" that is produced by an uncertainty of Self, making the outcome for proper body-performance, bleak indeed. This is the message of the Rider-Waite-Smith and The Connolly Tarot-10 of Swords.

Again, I cannot overstate the necessity for "Above all things, know thyself"! Each of us must understand that by thinking ill of ourselves or of another, we only supply our body with ill thoughts that confuse our performance and ruin our fated life!

When the Rider-Waite-Smith and Modern Witch-Ten of Swords is thrown during a Divination, it may imply that:

• A new birth of hope born out of desolation, pain and /or disaster.
• Mental ending. 
• There is no choice but to let go and move on mentally.
• Feeling pinned down or stabbed in the back.
• The struggle has ended, and the ego has no choice but to let go.
• Ending of problems as a definite end of a condition will occur in a short while. 

If ill defined by surrounding cards or reversed, it implies:

• Arbitrary end.
• Catastrophe.
• Violence.

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