Sulis
There's no colour at all on this card and no space either.
This is a very disturbing image. The top half of the card is light and the card fades to complete blackness at the bottom. At the bottom of the image a bull can just be made out, a bull pierced with 10 swords as he would be at the end of a bull fight. Most of the swords (black swords) are in his back but the final sword goes through both of his eye sockets.
Swords are about communication, thoughts, struggles and problems and I'm certainly getting problems and struggles mostly from this card but I'm sure context may change that.
So his suffering is over, it's gone on for quite a while but now it's over for him and things can start again. The sword through the eye sockets make me think that sometimes when things are bad and we feel as if it's difficult to actually think, that may be because we're actually blinded by the seeming enormity of our problems. There is an element of overkill here and one of my key phrases for the number 10 is 'too much' which fits with that.
Change is in the air, things cannot get any worse and (to coin a phrase), 'the only way is up'.
This card and most 10 Swords cards make me think of the Oscar Wilde quote 'We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars'..
You can look at this card as all doom and gloom or you can take the 'cup half full' path and say that the worst is over, suffering is done and things can now only get better. This phase is over and may not even be as bad as it seems.. Get ready for something new. 10s relate to The Wheel of Fortune and so are about change but also about not forgetting what's gone before... The start of a new phase is about to happen.
What a powerful image.
This is a very disturbing image. The top half of the card is light and the card fades to complete blackness at the bottom. At the bottom of the image a bull can just be made out, a bull pierced with 10 swords as he would be at the end of a bull fight. Most of the swords (black swords) are in his back but the final sword goes through both of his eye sockets.
Swords are about communication, thoughts, struggles and problems and I'm certainly getting problems and struggles mostly from this card but I'm sure context may change that.
So his suffering is over, it's gone on for quite a while but now it's over for him and things can start again. The sword through the eye sockets make me think that sometimes when things are bad and we feel as if it's difficult to actually think, that may be because we're actually blinded by the seeming enormity of our problems. There is an element of overkill here and one of my key phrases for the number 10 is 'too much' which fits with that.
Change is in the air, things cannot get any worse and (to coin a phrase), 'the only way is up'.
This card and most 10 Swords cards make me think of the Oscar Wilde quote 'We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars'..
You can look at this card as all doom and gloom or you can take the 'cup half full' path and say that the worst is over, suffering is done and things can now only get better. This phase is over and may not even be as bad as it seems.. Get ready for something new. 10s relate to The Wheel of Fortune and so are about change but also about not forgetting what's gone before... The start of a new phase is about to happen.
What a powerful image.