Nine of Swords
Affirmation
I do not worry about what I cannot control.
Symbolic Attributes
- Element:
- Arcana:Minor Arcana
- Suit:Swords
- Archetype:
- Numerology:9 (The Completion: fullness, readiness, ripeness)
- Hebrew Alphabet:
Keywords
Description
One seated on her couch in lamentation, with the swords over her. She is as one who knows no sorrow which is like unto hers. It is a card of utter desolation.
Light Meaning
- Refusing to worry about what you cannot control
- Rejecting anxiety
- Judging your own performance with kindness and gentleness
- Using meditation to quiet a troubled mind
- Confronting nightmares and fears
- Drawing a conclusion and putting an issue out of your mind
Shadow Meaning
- Torturing yourself with regrets
- Second-guessing your every move
- Beating yourself up for your mistakes
- Depression
- Obsessing on errors and overlooked details
- Refusing to handle stress in healthy ways
- Ruining your ability to appreciate the present by dwelling on the past
- Debating irreversible decisions
Questions to Ask Yourself
- •What role does worry play in your current situation?
- •To what other ends might you devote the energy you're giving to anxiety?
- •How can you know when it's time to stop thinking and start acting?
Personal Meaning
Focusing on your vulnerabilities and feelings of worry, guilt and despair.
Focusing on vulnerabilities and feelings of worry, guilt and despair.
You are focusing on your vulnerabilities and feelings of worry, guilt and despair. Your feelings might be caused by a very real intuition that your current path or direction may be wrong for you and is causing you pain, or your obsession with worry or thoughts of guilt might be unfounded and is causing your needless pain and anguish. Only you can determine the truth.
Personal Reversed Meaning
Be careful not to blithely dive into a situation that might cause a great deal of pain. You need to proceed with caution and carefully examine the possible effects of your actions.
It looks like you dove head first into a situation that caused a great deal of pain. Learn from your mistakes and move on.
You might be blithely diving into a situation that will cause a great deal of pain. You need to proceed with more caution and carefully examine the possible effects your actions with cause.
Fortune Telling
- •If you take the action you're considering now, you'll be sorry in the future