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King of Swords

Air · Swords
The King of Swords card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A crowned figure faces forward on a stone throne carved with butterflies, sword held slightly tilted, two birds above.

Upright

  • Judgement
  • Principle
  • Reason

The suit at its most disciplined: traditionally judgement made on principle rather than preference. It invites you to separate what you think from what you want.

Reversed

  • Severity
  • Cold logic
  • Misused authority

Read reversed, reason serves itself — argument used to win, or a standard applied to everyone but the one holding it.

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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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