Knight of Swords
The Knight of Swords represents swift, decisive intellectual action and a laser-focused pursuit of goals. This card embodies a powerful mind, direct communication, and the courage to call out hypocrisy and injustice. It urges prompt, analytical movement and decisive expression, while highlighting the ability to accomplish much through concentrated determination. When ill-aspected, it warns of impatience, recklessness, and hurtful bluntness, advising a slowdown to regain perspective.
Keywords
Knight of Swords
Keywords
Action with laser-focused intent and unstable drive; seeker of intellectual understanding, clarity, truth; letting the mind lead.
Meaning
Move and Drive
The Knight of Swords is a move-maker, risk-taker, charging at their goals and objectives with the full force of their laser-beam attention. Decisive, quick-thinking, and extremely intense, they're able to accomplish much of what they set their mind to, if only because they won't take "no" for an answer.
Voice and Temper
This Knight possesses a powerful mind and an equally powerful way with words, and they're not afraid to call out hypocrisy and injustice or to give voice to what everyone's thinking and no one's saying. The opposite of patient, this Knight can be brash and forceful, but you know the old saying: fortune favors the bold.
Call to Action
When this card appears, it can tell us to stop hesitating and charge toward our goals—and quickly. As the Knight of the mental realm, this card indicates following our intellectual interests with rapt-like perceptiveness, decisive action, and direct communication. What we seek, we can find with the power of analytical thought.
Warnings and Advice
If the Knight of Swords is ill-aspected in a reading, it can indicate that we're being too impatient and reckless in the pursuit of our goals. We may also be too pushy, forgetful of others, or hurtful with our words. In each instance, the Knight's speed and narrow focus is usually to blame, so it's a good idea to slow down and step back to gain some perspective.
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Visual Description
A seated queen occupies a tall, carved wooden throne and holds a long, upright sword in front of her. She wears a grey, high-necked dress with white gloves, decorative epaulettes and round spectacles; one gloved hand is extended and a small butterfly hovers above it. Her legs are crossed and she wears bright yellow boots, and the card is framed by a narrow border with the title "QUEEN OF SWORDS" at the bottom.
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