Card of the Day for August 13 - King of Swords
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Attribution - Taurus-Gemini Cusp (20
degrees Taurus to 20 degrees Gemini)
Kings are the most highly evolved energy of their suits - fathers, mature men, leadership, authority, principled action, public recognition, the ability to get things done, honours, awards, celebrations.
Swords is the suit of the intellect.
It represents air, authority, thought, reason, justice, truth and
ethical principles. It is knowledge, conflict, struggles and
turmoil.
Rider-Waite Imagery
The suit of swords is about thoughts, ideas, plans and anything
intellectual. The number 10 is completion, endings that make ways
for new beginnings. Shown on this card is a man face down with 10
swords stuck in his back. The swords are stuck into his back along
the spine. The sky is black (ignorance, delusion) at the top of
the card but there are gray (intrusion of the divine) clouds and
the sky near the horizon is yellow (healing and redemption). There
are purple (brings opposites together) mountains (limitations of
mind) in the distance. The man is lying on the brown
(practicality) earth at the edge of a still lake (emotions).
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THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT by
Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
He sits in judgement, holding the unsheathed sign of his suit. He
recalls, of course, the conventional Symbol of justice in the
Trumps Major, and he may represent this virtue, but he is rather
the power of life and death, in virtue of his office.
Divinatory Meanings:
Upright: Whatsoever arises out of the
idea of judgement and all its connexions-power, command,
authority, militant intelligence, law, offices of the crown, and
so forth.
Reversed: Cruelty, perversity,
barbarity, perfidy, evil intention.
Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana:
King: A lawyer, senator, doctor. Reversed: A bad man; also a
caution to put an end to a ruinous lawsuit.
UPRIGHT
Highly evolved intellect with a well developed sense of honour and ethics.
Decisiveness.
Independent authority.
Clear thinking.
Use logic when making decisions.
Sound and merciful judgement.
Power and strength.
Authority, law, order.
Someone that helps us find others we can trust.
A judge in government or law.
Wisdom of Solomon.
Being shrewd and knowledgeable.
Sharing what you know, teaching others.
Be honest about what you think, what you want and what you know.
A decision you have been waiting for will be fair and impartial.
More head than heart.
Acting in an overly cool and intellectual manner.
A private person who keeps his own counsel.
One’s father.
Stern, serious, thoughtful.
A good debater.
A well-educated man.
Good memory.
An intelligent professional will give you wise advice.
An intelligent man who enjoys
learning and the study of abstract ideas, who always looks before
he leaps and who can be impartial and unemotional.
Drivers and pilots; men who own
multiple vehicles or manage a transportation business (E. Hazel)
REVERSED
Being harsh, judgemental, prejudiced.
A cold, unbending person, out of
touch with his emotions.
Intolerant.
Military.
Someone insensitive, unkind, unforgiving and rigid in his thoughts.
A cruel person who uses words
destructively.
Prone to rages and yelling, or icy
cold insults.
Abusive.
A sadist.
Disruptions.
Severity.
Dangerous because of his brilliant mind.
His way is the only way.
Mentally exhausted.
Not handling bad news well.
1. Robin Wood
2. Herbal
3. Haindl
4. Amber
5. Gill
6. Phoenix
