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[[File:Swords10.jpg|150px|thumb|Ten of Swords from the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]] deck]]
The '''Ten of Swords''' is the tenth card in the suit of [[Swords (Tarot)|Swords]]. It usually stands for pain, affliction, tears, sadness, and desolation. Imprisonment. Treason. It is not a card indicating violent death.

==General description==
In the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]] deck, [[Pamela Colman Smith]] depicts the Ten of Swords as a prostrate figure stabbed by the ten swords of the suit. Blood trickles from the body, soaking the earth. There is a blue field beyond with mountains beyond, but it does not appear to be waters that give life, but more like the River Styx.

==Divinatory meaning==
The card represents material necessity and the limits and corner-stones which it erects. It is ultimately the card of inescapable karmic results, or material karma itself. To the profane this very often means affliction, and the personality may be burdened by the weight of fate. The image of this card seems to suggest this burden.

On the other hand tradition is certainly not wrong in stating that it may represent gain and profit, as the card of karma will bring the full measure of material things in general and not only in the way of tragedy. Profit and advantage, however, may also become oppressive and its possibility must be considered here.

If reversed, the card can mean: Advantage, profit, success, or victory, but none of these are permanent; also power and authority.

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!style="background:#d7d6ff;text-align:center;"; colspan="3"|[[Tarot]] Topics''
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|style="background:#d7d6ff";text-align:center|'''[[Major Arcana]]'''
|colspan="2"|[[The Fool]] • [[The Magician]] • [[The High Priestess]] • [[The Empress]] • [[The Emperor]] • [[The Hierophant]] • [[The Lovers]] • [[The Chariot]] • [[Strength]] • [[The Hermit]] • [[Wheel of Fortune]] • [[Justice]] • [[The Hanged Man]] • [[Death]] • [[Temperance]] • [[The Devil (Tarot) |The Devil]] • [[The Tower]] • [[The Star]] • [[The Moon]] • [[The Sun]] • [[Judgement]] • [[The World]]
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|rowspan="4" style="background:#d7d6ff";text-align:center|'''[[Minor Arcana]]'''
|[[Pentacles (Tarot)|Pentacles]]
|style=text-align:left|[[Ace of Pentacles|Ace]] • [[Two of Pentacles|Two]] • [[Three of Pentacles|Three]] • [[Four of Pentacles|Four]] • [[Five of Pentacles|Five]] • [[Six of Pentacles|Six]] • [[Seven of Pentacles|Seven]] • [[Eight of Pentacles|Eight]] • [[Nine of Pentacles|Nine]] • [[Ten of Pentacles|Ten]] • [[Page of Pentacles|Page]] • [[Knight of Pentacles|Knight]] • [[Queen of Pentacles|Queen]] • [[King of Pentacles|King]]
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|[[Wands (Tarot)|Wands]]
|style=text-align:left|[[Ace of Wands|Ace]] • [[Two of Wands|Two]] • [[Three of Wands|Three]] • [[Four of Wands|Four]] • [[Five of Wands|Five]] • [[Six of Wands|Six]] • [[Seven of Wands|Seven]] • [[Eight of Wands|Eight]] • [[Nine of Wands|Nine]] • [[Ten of Wands|Ten]] • [[Page of Wands|Page]] • [[Knight of Wands|Knight]] • [[Queen of Wands|Queen]] • [[King of Wands|King]]
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|[[Cups (Tarot)|Cups]]
|style=text-align:left|[[Ace of Cups|Ace]] • [[Two of Cups|Two]] • [[Three of Cups|Three]] • [[Four of Cups|Four]] • [[Five of Cups|Five]] • [[Six of Cups|Six]] • [[Seven of Cups|Seven]] • [[Eight of Cups|Eight]] • [[Nine of Cups|Nine]] • [[Ten of Cups|Ten]] • [[Page of Cups|Page]] • [[Knight of Cups|Knight]] • [[Queen of Cups|Queen]] • [[King of Cups|King]]
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|[[Swords (Tarot)|Swords]]
|style=text-align:left|[[Ace of Swords|Ace]] • [[Two of Swords|Two]] • [[Three of Swords|Three]] • [[Four of Swords|Four]] • [[Five of Swords|Five]] • [[Six of Swords|Six]] • [[Seven of Swords|Seven]] • [[Eight of Swords|Eight]] • [[Nine of Swords|Nine]] • [[Ten of Swords|Ten]] • [[Page of Swords|Page]] • [[Knight of Swords|Knight]] • [[Queen of Swords|Queen]] • [[King of Swords|King]]
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|style="background:#d7d6ff"|'''Decks'''
|colspan="2" style=text-align:left|[[Visconti-Sforza Tarot]] • [[Tarot of Marseilles]] • [[Rider-Waite Tarot]] • [[Thoth Tarot]] • [[Occult Tarot]] • [[Angel Tarot]] • [[Vlad Dracula Tarot]] • [[Hieronymus Bosch Tarot]]
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