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The Ace of Swords card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A hand from a cloud holds a sword upright, a crown wreathed in laurel and palm at its point, bare peaks below.

Upright

  • Clarity
  • Truth
  • Cut through

The suit of thought at its sharpest — traditionally a fact arriving plainly, or a decision made clean. It asks what you already see clearly.

Reversed

  • Muddle
  • Harsh words
  • Half-truth

Reversed, the edge cuts wrong: clarity used as a weapon, or an argument that sounds decisive and is not.

About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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