Minor Arcana · Swords · X · Air
Ten of Swords — tarot meaning
fullness, burden, culmination — in thought, truth and conflict
Upright
The end of the ordeal. The worst has landed; from here, only rising.
Reversed
Recovery resisted — or a slow, unwilling ending.
Shown from the 1909 William Rider & Sons deck (public domain). A card is read in relation to the question and the cards around it; these meanings are a starting point, not a verdict.