Card 10 / 36
Scythe เคียว
- Playing card
- J♦ Diamonds
- Tone in the original text
- Depends on position
- Other names
- Faux (FR) · Sense (DE)
Keywords
- sudden cut
- decision
- danger
- harvest
- accident
In a modern reading
A sudden cut, a quick decision or a warning of danger. It also means harvest: the moment to reap what was sown. [13][14][11]
Text on the 19th-century card
Printed on a French Petit Lenormand (Geûens-Sea, Bruges, c. 1895–1901), Bibliothèque nationale de France [1]
Présage d'un grand péril mais que l'on peut éluder, quand elle est entourée de bonnes cartes.
Foretells great danger, which can be avoided when the card is surrounded by good cards.
As a house in the Grand Tableau
Position 10 of the Grand Tableau is the House of the Scythe. A card that falls here is read in the context of sudden cut, decision, danger.[15][16]