Knight of Swords
Knight of Swords — the suit of air, of thought, conflict and trouble.
He is riding in full course, as if scattering his enemies. In the design he is really a proto-typical hero of romantic chivalry. He might almost be Galahad, whose sword is swift and sure because he is clean of heart.
Divinatory meaning
Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin. There is therefore a sense in which the card signifies death, but it carries this meaning only in its proximity to other cards of fatality.
Reversed
Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance. [Illustration]
From The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, A. E. Waite, page 55 of the library’s copy. The words are Waite’s.
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