From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
Nine of Swords
Meanings
Nightmares. Worries, fears and unresolved issues are haunting you. A health problem in someone close to you may have you feeling frustrated and helpless. Depression, despair, a sense of hopelessness.
Reversed (?)
Fears confronted. Wake up and face your nightmares. If they are caused by guilt or remorse, think of what you can do to give redress, and perhaps then you can find peace.
Description
A woman sits up in bed with her head in her hands. The side of the bed has a carving of a person whipping another person. A snarling black dog snaps at her, and nine swords hang on the wall behind. An orange butterfly sits on the end of her bed.
Artwork
- Sword hilt, blade: GENTILESCHI, Artemisia, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1612-21, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
- Sword grip: VOUET, Simon, Magdalene, 1614-15, Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome.
- Wall: GENTILESCHI, Orazio, Danaë, c.1621, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
- Pillow: HEINTZ Joseph, Liegender weiblicher Akt, c.1600, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
- Whipping slab: TIZIANO, Vecellio (Titian), Sacred and Profane Love, 1514, Galleria Borghese, Rome.
- Coverlet: VELÁZQUEZ, Diego, Queen Isabel of Bourbon Equestrian, 1634-35, Museo del Prado, Madrid.
- Grieving person: FETI, Domenico, Melancholy, c.1622, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.
- Black dog: WEENIX, Jan Baptist, A Dog and a Cat near a Partially Disembowelled Deer, c.1647-60, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
- Butterfly: AST, Balthasar van der (aka BOSSCHAERT, Ambrosius the Elder), Still Life with Fruit and Flowers, c.1620-21, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
