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Knight of Swords

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

On the card

An armoured rider charges at full gallop, sword high, cloak and horse's mane streaming in the wind.

Upright

  • Directness
  • Speed
  • Conviction

The fastest card in the deck — traditionally moving straight at the thing with argument in hand. It asks whether the speed is serving the point.

Reversed

  • Bluntness
  • Rashness
  • Stalled

Read reversed, the charge does damage or comes to nothing: force of argument without care, or an argument that ran out of ground.

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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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