Waite–Smith, Swords
Six of Swords
What you can see
A standing boatman uses a pole behind two seated passengers. Six swords stand in the boat, and land is visible across the water.
What Waite says
Waite concentrates on passage, routes and a manageable task. His text says the work is within the ferryman’s strength, rather than attributing one definite emotional history to the passengers.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 242 ↗Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.