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The "Nines" in the Tarot Deck are the last of the single digit numbers they are cards of completion (as an aide-memoir think of the 9 months of human pregnancy). These are cards representing and achievement about which one can reflect on progress made, and any associated material gains or earnings.

The Nine of Swords is a card that can be viewed as representing nightmares, difficulties, and despair - or these issues as a route to healing and progress. In either case, it may not be a comfortable mental/emotional stiuation to experience while it lasts ... but the end is in sight.

This card may suggest that self-criticism may be contributing to our problem - perhaps we could help pourselves by releasing any negative thoughts (especially about ourselves). Take action to move on.

Keywords summarising the possible meanings of this card include:

• Cruelty (of mind as much as of action)
• Doubt
• Pain
• Sleepness Nights - possibly due to worry about oneself or about another.
• Suffering
• Suspicion.

Remember that all of the Swords cards in the Tarot Deck have some energies in common. These include, for example, the overall association of the suit of Swords with academic or philosophical thought, intellectual pursuits, truth, and clarity. For further information, also read about the Suit of Swords in general.

Some texts include meanings for "reversed cards", which apply when the cards are shuffled in both order and orientation. This doubles the number of possible "cards" in the deck from 78 to 156. (In terms of the probabilities of obtaining results by chance alone, it is not a simple doubling as once a card has been drawn it cannot be selected again in the opposite orientation in the same reading.)

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