Minor Arcana · Swords · Air
Nine of Swords
Thoth: Cruelty
In a reading
Night-time fears that are worse in your head than in the world. Talk to someone.
- Upright
- Anxiety, nightmares, worry, despair
- Reversed
- Hope returning, reaching out
Correspondences
- Suit
- Swords · element Air
- Thoth title
- Nine of Swords: Cruelty
- Golden Dawn title (Book T)
- Lord of Despair and Cruelty
- Astrology
- Mars in Gemini (10°–20° Gemini, a decan)
- Sephirah
- יסוד Yesod (9), Foundation
Card image: Pamela Colman Smith, Rider-Waite tarot, 1909 (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).