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==Divinatory meaning== | ==Divinatory meaning== | ||
[[File:Knight of Swords - Female1.jpg|150px|thumb|A female Knight of Swords from the [[Visconti-Sforza Tarot]]]] | |||
A key meaning of the Knight of Swords is that of painful memories, suffering by ancient wrongs. In fact war is in all cases, be it private or collective, the phenomenon of the outbreak of some ancient wrong or evil—the wrong of oppression on one side or the evil of desire on the other. The Knight of Swords must bear the significance of the bearer of weapons, which avenge wrongs or serve attacks. Badly aspected it may mean opposition against the power of the father or [[The Emperor]], revolution, which is quite in the line of the grumbling and malcontent nature of the [[Cancer]]ian of the lower type. It is, however, to be expected that such opposition will be very much hidden, dark, in the background, not open nor very loyal. | A key meaning of the Knight of Swords is that of painful memories, suffering by ancient wrongs. In fact war is in all cases, be it private or collective, the phenomenon of the outbreak of some ancient wrong or evil—the wrong of oppression on one side or the evil of desire on the other. The Knight of Swords must bear the significance of the bearer of weapons, which avenge wrongs or serve attacks. Badly aspected it may mean opposition against the power of the father or [[The Emperor]], revolution, which is quite in the line of the grumbling and malcontent nature of the [[Cancer]]ian of the lower type. It is, however, to be expected that such opposition will be very much hidden, dark, in the background, not open nor very loyal. | ||
On account of its relation with the | On account of its relation with the twelfth house this card may also mean a surgeon and operations performed by him, and, in lower types or weaker cases, fraud and destruction of organisms, whatever these may be. It may further relate here to all sorts of bad passions and to degrees of hatred. | ||
If reversed, the card can mean: Imprudence, incapacity, or extravagance. Struggle that will be conquered. | If reversed, the card can mean: Imprudence, incapacity, or extravagance. Struggle that will be conquered. | ||