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Knight of Swords Tarot Card Meaning

Knight of Swords belongs to the suit of Swords — the air suit of the mind, truth and conflict. Upright it speaks of bold action, ambition, quick thinking; reversed, of recklessness, impulsiveness. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's archetype and its astrological correspondence.

Knight of Swords tarot card — hand-illustrated Lunara deck
Minor Arcana · SwordsAir

Upright meaning

“Skill, bravery, capacity, defence, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin. There is therefore a sense in which the card signifies death, but it carries this meaning only in its proximity to other cards of fatality”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: bold action, ambition, quick thinking, driven, direct.

Reversed meaning

“Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: recklessness, impulsiveness, brashness.

The archetype

In the language of the thinking function (discrimination, conflict and truth — the air of the mind): the extraverted function (Knight) — pursuit, the quest psyche.

Astrology

The fiery aspect of Air; court of the air triplicity (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius).

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