Meaning: Upheaval, conflict, and loss
Depiction: Having snapped Ahab's boat on the first day of the chase, Moby Dick rises vertically from the water, stuck with three twisted lances from older fights. Two more float on the water nearby.
Text: Chapter 133 - The Chase, First Day
Ripplingly withdrawing from his prey, Moby Dick now lay at a little distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the billows; and at the same time slowly revolving his whole spindled body; so that when his vast wrinkled forehead rose—some twenty or more feet out of the water—the now rising swells, with all their confluent waves, dazzlingly broke against it; vindictively tossing their shivered spray still higher into the air.
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| Rockwell Kent's illustration from Moby-Dick (1930) |
Comments: Moby Dick as the victorious warrior in this image, with a stove boat in the background, clearly captures the card meaning of a lost fight. According to Wikipedia, this is also known as the defeat card.
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