Card 50 • swords

Ace of Swords

Brief Description

The Ace of Swords represents truth, clarity, and the sudden arrival of a bright idea or solution that cuts through confusion. It signifies communication, justice, and the knowledge that makes everything become clear. The card also warns that such truth can harm if wielded clumsily and urges the seeker to use insight with love and care. Reversed, it points to faulty logic, miscommunication, injustice, and indecision.

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Divinatory meaning

Just as a sword is a double-sided weapon, it contains both gifts and warnings. This card means truth, clarity, communication, and justice. It is a bright idea that seems to come out of nowhere. It is the solution to a tricky problem. It is knowledge that makes everything become clear. The warning is to use this truth, this idea well and wield it with love because using it clumsily leads to cruelty.

Advice

Take up this idea, this solution, this truth and wield it with love. You've been given a gift to restore peace, not to destroy.

Reversed

Faulty logic, miscommunication, injustice, indecision.

Visual Description

A single upright sword fills the center of the image, its blade pointing toward the top edge and a crown hovering around its midpoint. Two hands grasp the hilt near the base while a radiant halo of light and stars glows behind the blade. Clouds and leafy branches frame the sword on either side and a serene, closed-eyed face is visible above the blade.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Barbara Moore, Rann

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