Mystical Angels

Can the Tarot card the "ten of swords" have any positive meaning?

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Public Comments

1. All the cards have positive and negative meanings. It's a card of complete loss, but with complete loss is a chance to start completely over. When you are at rock bottom, the only other place to go is up.
2. A man lies in a desolate place, pierced by ten Swords. Unlike the Eight of Swords, where the swords merely surround, here they actually pierce flesh - the ultimate result of unchecked strife and conflict. However, note the sunrise beyond the dark clouds. This card is about failure, loss, defeat, sudden misfortune or the ruin of plans. The focus is on stagnant conditons that must be cleared away - unfinished business that must be resolved before progress can be made. Don't give up or consider the situation hopeless. Accept what is, but don't give in to negative thinking. Have faith in both yourself and God. Things are going to turn out different than you anticipate. The future may look grim, but hope is on the way. from: http://www.thelostfound.com/tarot/cards/meanings/10sword.html
3. Upright, the ten of swords indicates the end of a cycle. For example, a divorce or ending a job. I could also mean the end of something such as an illness or perhaps the end of a pregnancy (which can be a good thing, leading to a birth). Reversed means that the cycle of change has ended. So, this could mean a steady improvement of health, or perhaps if you've gone through a divorce (as in the upright meaning of the card) then it has been finalized and you are ready to move on to bigger and better things. Either way, this card can be a bad thing AND a good thing (as with most Tarot cards, both in the major and minor arcana). What kind of spread are you doing? You must remember that ALL the cards in your spread work together, and the ten of swords' meaning can be more easily understood by the outcome of the other cards.
4. Yes, you're at the bottom of a cycle of bad luck from here on it gets better. Divinatory meaning Upright - Ruin, desolation, disruption, although generally this refers to a group rather than an individual. Sorrow, sudden misfortune, accidents, muggings or personal robbery. There is some cause for optimism; as the lowest point in the cycle, from now on things can only get better the worst is over. Ill Dignified or Reversed - Only an illusionary lifting of burdens or release from afflictions as suffering will continue. Sometimes death and violent and extreme change. Only temporary good fortune.