Four of Swords

Rest and a pause.

What Four of Swords can mean for your day

In tradition, a knight lies resting on a tomb in a quiet church. You need to recharge. Today, rest counts as doing something.

Try: Take an evening off, with nothing on the list.

Where it sits in the deck

Tarot is a deck of 78 picture cards. 56 of them, like this one, are about everyday life. They come in four groups, called suits, a bit like playing cards.

Swords: thoughts, words and hard truths. In tradition, the suit of Air.

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