Card 63 • swords

King of Swords

Brief Description

The King of Swords represents King Macbeth, driven by excessive ambition to fulfill his aspirations. He embodies a dynamic storm of flexible sharp intellect, logic, and purposefulness that breaks through any resistance with cold-blooded precision. This card signifies the ruthless making of difficult decisions and represents responsible yet cruel and punishing authority.

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The Ambitious Ruler

King Macbeth, excessively thirsting for the realization of his ambitious designs. A dynamic storm vortex, expressed through the power of a flexible and sharp mind, logic, purposefulness that breaks any resistance, cold-bloodedness and clear implementation of decisions.

Ruthless Authority

This is the ruthless acceptance of difficult decisions and power that is responsible, cruel and punishing.

Visual Description

A crowned man in profile wears armor and has long dark hair falling past his shoulders. He looks downward with a stern, focused expression. A gauntleted hand stained with red rests near a golden-edged sword at the lower right. The background shows undulating, wavy lines and muted, stormy tones. A banner at the bottom reads "KING OF SWORDS."

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