5 of SwordsThoth Tarot Tarot Meaning
Number: 5 of Swords · Arcana: Minor Arcana — Swords
- swords
- elemental
- decan
Upright meaning
Defeat — real loss, malice, and slander, failure and dishonor compounding a hard-fought anxiety and grief.
Reversals in this deck
The Thoth tradition does not read reversed cards. Crowley's system judges a card as well- or ill-dignified from the cards around it and its elemental dignities, so every card here is read upright.
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