10 of SwordsThe Golden Dawn Tarot Tarot Meaning

10 of Swords card from the The Golden Dawn Tarot tarot deck

Number: 10 of Swords  ·  Arcana: Minor Arcana — Swords

Upright meaning

A real ruin of plans and projects — genuine disaster and failure, an undisciplined force overturning what was carefully built.

Reversals in this deck

The Golden Dawn's own system never reversed cards — a card's "ill-dignified" reading came from the neighboring cards in the spread, and the order's instructions say a drawn card's orientation must not be altered. Every card here is read upright.

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