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[Rae22]

Swords also cut "veils."

Indeed Paradise! If I stick with the archetypes rather than random, personal interpretation of symbols, the dagger does rend open, expose, reveal. Very good observation! 13 is very much the same thing, even if it's the Tarot meaning it is most often, as you said, change and very often it is a change of view or heart as well as abandonment of old giving us an opportunity, as found in another recent dream, of a need to re-evaluate. The death card also exposes what is hidden or beneath. Thank you for your observations.