Queen of Swords
Queen of Swords — the suit of air, of thought, conflict and trouble.
Her right hand raises the weapon vertically and the hilt rests on an arm of her royal chair; the left hand is extended, the arm raised; her countenance is severe but chastened; it suggests familiarity with sorrow. It does not represent mercy, and, her sword notwithstanding, she is scarcely a symbol of power.
Divinatory meaning
Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation.
Reversed
Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit. [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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