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Tarot card

Ten of Swords

Also called Lord of Ruin
Tarot card1 tradition
overview

A man lies face down pierced by ten swords as dawn breaks: an ending, rock bottom, and the only way left is up.

Uses

  • Accepting an ending
  • Starting over
ritual
Suit
Swords · Air
Golden Dawn title
Lord of Ruin
Decan
Sun in Gemini (20°–30° Gemini)
Sephira
Malkuth (10)
Upright
Painful endings, rock bottom, betrayal, collapse
Reversed
Recovery, regeneration, resisting an end

Working with it

At dawn after a hard ending, watch the sun come up and name one thing you will rebuild.

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Where the traditions place it