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Knight of Swords

Minor Arcana · Swords

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Knight ofSwordsSWORDS
Tarot cardMinor Arcana · Swords

Traditionally read as swift, forthright thought: direct speech, ambition and a mind set on one aim. It is associated with courage in argument and with the risk of bluntness.

  • directness
  • speed
  • ambition
A question to sit withHow would this land if I said it more slowly?
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Reversed

What the tradition associates with this card when it falls the other way up.

Reversed, traditionally read as speed that has lost its aim. The tradition associates it with rushing in unprepared, with bluntness that wounds, and with energy scattered across too many arguments.

  • recklessness
  • bluntness
  • scattered energy
A question to sit withWhat am I hurrying toward, and what am I hurrying away from?

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