Ten of Swords - Rewilding the Tarot

Like the corpse on the Smith Rider-Waite 10 of swords, the finality of death is not recent, new, nor is it breaking news. This death occurred some time past, and its finality was inescapable. We have already sat with this death, and felt something once very alive and real to us slip away. The 10 of swords carries an inevitability that no other card, save Death itself, can rival. But it also brings with it the birdsong of the breaking dawn.