Small cards, Swords
Ten of Swords
Ruin
A plan or explanation may have reached the point where more defence cannot repair it. Name what has failed specifically, and begin the next account with what remains true.
What can you salvage without preserving the failed structure?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Sun in Gemini
- Suit element
- Air
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Malkuth
- Ten-degree span
- 20-30 Gemini
Sources
The numbered cards combine a sphere, a suit element, and a planetary decan. The Ace begins at Kether; Two through Ten follow the numbered spheres. These are symbolic correspondences, not a birth chart.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 200 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Ten of Swords ↗
Spans use a starting boundary inclusive and an ending boundary exclusive. Older texts may describe the same interval with ordinal degree numbers.
Symbols
In the Book T design
Ten swords break the arrangement; no rose, flower or bud remains.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 200 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Ruin.
Uncontrolled conflict breaks apart plans and brings an undertaking to failure. The account’s scattered qualities of wit and eloquence do not remove that central image of disruption.
Thoth: Ten of Swords.
Book T’s title is shown separately from the Thoth name. The symbol note below describes the 1912 text, whose design can differ from Harris’s painting.