Firesilk's Book of Shadows

SWORDS

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Knight of Swords
Represents the fiery part of Air. A man, active skillful and clever, fierce,delicate and courageous, but often unreflective. If ill-dignified, he is incapable of decision,deceiful, tyrannical and crafty.
Queen of Swords
Represents the watery part of Air. A graceful woman, intensely perceptive, a keen observer, subtle interpreter, an intense individualist, confident, gracious and just. If ill-dignified, cruel, sly and deceitful, unreliable, yet superbly attractive, making her all the more dangerous.
Prince of Swords
Represents the airy part of Air. A young man purely intellectual, full of ideas and designs, intensely clever but unstable of purpose, an elusive and ealstic mind supporting various and contradictory opinions, domineering. He slays as fast as he creates. If badly dignified, may be harsh, malicious, and unreliable, a fanatic.
Princess of Swords
Represents the earthy part of Air. A young woman, stern and revengeful with destructive logic, firm and aggressive with great practical wisdom and subtlety, dextrous in management of practical affairs. If ill-dignified, filled with low cunning and frivolousness.
Ace of Swords
Root of the Powers of Air--Invoked force as contrasted with natural force (compare with the Ace of Wands). Represents great power for good or evil but invoked, conquest, whirling force, activity, strength through trouble. Affirmation of justice, upholding divine authority; may become a sword of wrath, punishment, affliction.
Two of Swords
Peace--contradictory characteristics in the same nature, sacrifice and trouble giving birth to strength, quarrel made up and peace restored, yet tension remaining, pleasure after pain, truth and untruth, indecision, actions sometimes selfish or unselfish. Moon in Libra.
Three of Swords
Sorrow--The quality of melancholy, unhappiness, tears, disruption, sowing of discord and strife, delay, absence, separation, mirth in forbidden pleasures, deceit; may also be singing, faithfulness in promises, honesty in money transactions, if well-dignified. Saturn in Libra.
Four of Swords
Truce--Rest from sorrow, peace after war, relaxation of anxiety, refuge from mental chaos, recovery from sickness, change for the better after struggle. Authority in the intellectual world, convention and the establishment of dogma. Jupiter in Libra.
Five of Swords
Defeat--Loss, malice, spite, weakness, slander, failure, anxiety, poverty, dishonor, trouble, grieving after pain, lies; separation of friends, a busybody, cruel yet cowardly, evil speaking. Venus in Aquarius.
Six of Swords
Science--Intelligence which has realized its goal, labor, work, success after anxiety, passage from difficulty, journey by water; if ill-dignified, selfishness, conceit, intellectual pride. Mercury in Aquarius.
Seven of Swords
Futility--Unstable effort, vacillation, vain striving against opposition too powerful, partial success by giving up on the brink of winning through lack of energy, fascination with display, journey by land, untrustworthy, unreliable. Moon in Aquarius.
Eight of Swords
Interference--Waste of energy in details causing neglect of more important things, lack of persistence, sheer un-foreseen bad luck, restriction, great care in some things counter-balanced by equal disorder in others. Jupiter in Gemini.
Nine of Swords
Cruelty--Agony of mind, despair, hopelessness, loss, suffering, malice, loss, pain, burden, oppression, lying, craft, shame. Well-dignified can be obedience, faithfulness, patience, unselfishness, etc. Mars in Gemini.
Ten of Swords
Ruin--Reason divorced from reality, death, failure, disaster yet not entirely without hope, disruption, given to much unprofitable speech, clever and eloquent, insolent, impertinent yet with mirth. Spiritually may herald the end of delusion. Sun in Gemini.

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