Nine of Swords — Smith’s Tarot

You’re winning a fight against a superior force.

Nine of Swords — by author.

Illustration and design by author. Page size: 8.5 x 11". Tarot card canvas size: 120mm x 70mm on Southworth archive-quality paper. Inked with PandaFly precision microline pens. Sketched with Blackwing pencils. Shaded with a blending stump. The process before scanning is entirely analog.

Nine of Swords may appear to be a card of doom. Not true. It shows how you are overcoming an opposition which is bigger than your body. You are confronting the towers of your past, which contain all the phantoms that have encouraged you to entertain fears and doubts. You are finally confronting them.

The result is newfound courage. You are winning now, as a result of your pure intentions. You are putting imperfect means to good use until your environment becomes ideal.