From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
Five of Swords
Meanings
An unfair fight brings shame to all. To win by cheating has no honor, especially when the victor revels in the shame of the defeated. Humiliation, despair and feeling victimized or bullied.
Reversed (?)
Beware dirty tricks. An unfair fight may occur if you do not take care to avoid it. A return to dignity after suffering pain, anguish or humiliation.
Description
A man stands on a beach holding three swords. Another two swords are stuck in the sand. Behind him, two defeated men retreat. A butterfly flies above them.
Artwork
- Sword hilt, blade: GENTILESCHI, Artemisia, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1612-21, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
- Sword grip: VOUET, Simon, Magdalene, 1614-15, Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome.
- Dunes: GOYEN, Jan van, Dunes, 1629, Staatliche Museen, Berlin.
- Older retreating man - STEEN, Jan Havicksz., The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, 1671, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Younger retreating man - RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel, St Gregory the Great with Saints, 1606, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
- Front man: MORONI, Giovanni Battista, Portrait of Don Gabriel de la Cueva, Duke of Albuquerque, 1560, Staatliche Museen, Berlin.
- Butterfly: HEEM, Jan Davidsz., Festoon of Fruit and Flowers, c.1635-84, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Very different! The background men are totally different. The moth is moved. I love this card much better!
Thanks - it was one I was not 100% happy with in the LE, just couldn't find the right background guys. I pushed my time-period just a bit to find one - I think 1671 is one of the latest dates of a painting used in the deck.
I love the blackwork embroidery on his collar.