The Card Codex
Nine of Swords

Minor Arcana · Swords

Nine of Swords

Upright

anxietysleeplessnessnight thoughts

At night everything is larger than it is — you know that, and you are awake anyway. Put the worry into words on paper: it shrinks there.

Reversed

morningthe fear namedit eases

The longest night is passing and things are returning to their real size. Tell someone that you were frightened: the telling itself lightens it.