Queen of Swords
The Queen of Swords represents a powerful, determined, and reserved leader who presents an outward calm while carrying inward sadness and longing. She is intelligent, tenacious, and able to suppress immediate desires to achieve larger aims, often maintaining an impenetrable façade or wearing a thick mask. Upright, the card denotes grief, loneliness, persistent memories, and a focus on the past or distant unattainable yearnings, alongside grace, authority, and determination. Reversed, it warns of untrustworthy or self-serving behavior, a broken facade or faltering resolve, and can indicate either the return of what was dearly missed or the letting go of long-held desires; magickally it aids resolve and reconnection with the past, while reversed it helps reveal truth or reclaim what was lost.
Keywords
Queen of Swords
Description
Missing a loved one; loneliness; a powerful, determined, tenacious, and reserved individual; a grieving person; yearning for the distant or unattainable; a strong and confident leader; a deep sense of longing that remains unsatisfied; focusing thoughts on the past or the future; one who wears a thick mask; maintaining or utilizing one's position of authority; grace; determination; a persistent memory; an inward sadness and an outward calm; an impenetrable facade; closing off the affections; an intelligent individual who is somewhat distant; bearing one's pain in silence; a person who is able to suppress their immediate desires in order to achieve larger aims.
Reversed
A person who should not be trusted; something or someone that has been dearly missed returns; a calm facade is broken; a mask is cracked; self-serving leadership; determination and resolve start to falter; a longing is satisfied; a long-held desire or memory is left in the past; a person whom the card represents is troubled or at odds with the querent.
Magickal Uses
Use in spells to help bolster resolve, determination, and authority, or in rituals and other magickal workings aimed at reconnecting with the past. Reversed, use as an aid to revealing the truth or for reclaiming that which has been lost or left behind.
Visual Description
A crowned woman sits on a carved throne in a snowy mountain landscape, holding a long upright sword by its hilt. She wears a fur-trimmed cloak, gold bracelets and a golden crown, and long dark hair flows behind her. A large dark bull lies at her feet in the snow and the card title 'QUEEN OF SWORDS' appears on a banner at the bottom.
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