Minor arcana · Swords
5 of Swords
The Five of Swords questions the price of a victory. It shows an opposition that ends, and the question of the cost left behind the one who gathers the blades.
The Five of Swords questions the price of a victory. It shows an opposition that ends, and the question of the cost left behind the one who gathers the blades.
A man picks swords up from the ground while two figures walk away, their heads low. The sky clouds over, and the gathered blades fill the foreground.
The winner bends to pick up: that gesture turns back on you when you measure what it leaves on the ground. An opposition without contempt clears up a real disagreement.
Winning takes all the room: you collect the blades from the field and you do not look at the two figures leaving with lowered heads, nor at what they carry off.
RWS. Five of Swords. The scene packs several moments into one drawing: the fight just finished and the winner’s harvest.
Ask yourself what the victory brings you in concrete terms and what it costs the other. Look at the two people leaving the scene.
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