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Page of Swords |
 A lithe, active figure holds a sword upright in
both hands, while in the act of swift walking. He is passing over rugged land, and about
his way the clouds are collocated wildly. He is alert and lithe, looking this way and
that, as if an expected enemy might appear at any moment. : Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination, and
the qualities thereto belonging. Reversed: More evil side of these qualities; what
is unforeseen, unprepared state; sickness is also intimated. |
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Knight of Swords |
 He is riding in full course, as if scattering his
enemies. In the design he is really a prototypical hero of romantic chivalry. He might
almost be Galahad, whose sword is swift and sure because he is clean of heart. : 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. Reversed: Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance. |
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Queen of Swords |
 Her right hand raises the weapon vertically and
the hilt rests on an arm of her royal chair the left hand is extended, the arm raised her
countenance is severe but chastened; it suggests familiarity with sorrow. It does not
represent mercy, and, her sword notwithstanding, she is scarcely a symbol of power. : Widowhood, female sadness and
embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation. Reversed:
Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit. |
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King of Swords |
 He sits in judgment, holding the unsheathed sign
of his suit. He recalls, of course, the conventional Symbol of justice in the Trumps
Major, and he may represent this virtue, but he is rather the power of life and death, in
virtue of his office. : Whatsoever
arises out of the idea of judgment and all its connexions-power, command, authority,
militant intelligence, law, offices of the crown, and so forth. Reversed: Cruelty,
perversity, barbarity, perfidy, evil intention. |
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