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Radiant: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot- Ten of Swords
The Rider-Waite-Smith Ten of Swords and the Modern Witch Tarot card concentrates their 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, whereas, #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, go get a thorough physical check up 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.
However, fear not as 10's are notoriously short lived, as they are an end of a cycle, and soon a new cycle begins, So a Ten, 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.
Modern Witch Tarot- 10 of Swords
The Modern Witch -10 of Swords, keeps to traditional art. Implies you have been pierced through by 10 swords, and the burden has knock you down, collapsing into a ball on the floor. 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 coming to an end. Sometimes, only a meaningless distraction (book in hand) feels like it will help. However, the pain will end and you will become a stronger person, having survived it.
Rider-Waite-Smith- 10 of Swords-Ruin
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, for ethically this is no less moral than resigning a position when one sees what is a work 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".
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 an 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 fact" 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 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 scientist 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 Modern Witch-10 of Swords.
Again, I cannot over state 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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