KEYWORDS: Logic ELEMENT: Air ELEMENTAL SPIRIT: Sylph HIGHEST POWER: Clarity SEASON: Spring TIME: Sunrise PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTION: Thinking ZODIAC SIGNS: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius
The suit of Swords is represented by the astrological signs of Gemini, Libra and Aquarius.Gemini is charming, intellectual, social and a day-dreamer.
Libra represents justice, equality, honesty and tend to be in love with love.
Aquarius is inventive, positive, kindly and overly self-assured.
Swords Archetype: Action - the force of intention.
Swords correspond to Spades in a regular deck of cards. Their Greek element is fire. They stand for forceful action, power, and firm decision. In the four classes of feudal society, this suit is linked to that of the aristocracy, the warriors and rulers.
Swords are about air, it is our thoughts, our mind, mental activity, our ideas, conflict, war, grief, justice, secrets, justice/injustice, right and wrong.
The Swords are also known as blades, knives or athames. They correspond to spades in a playing card deck and are associated with the Air element and the color indigo. The suit is associated with Gemini, Libra and Aquarius. The cards are symbolic of battles within you, challenge, struggle, physical and moral conflict, action and change.
Swords are associated with action, conflict and struggle … which can turn out to be positive experiences – a ‘blessing in disguise’.
The element of Air is connected with the suit of Swords, and with the mind. It is the most ‘human’ of all elements.
The positive qualities of Air are ‘fair’, just, logical, reasonable and diplomatic.
The Suit of Swords also represents the Earth Signs of Capricorn, Taurus and Virgo.
Swords represent the months March, April and May.
The suit of Swords implies continual effort and endeavour.
Swords are used to clear away all the fragments of falsehood. Swords can represent hostility, struggle, bitterness, malice. Swords represent a path of pain, suffering, reversals, sickness and the final realization after many hard trials and tests.
The suit of Swords symbolizes the search for truth, and the battle within oneself.
The related herbs affect the nervous system, as well as the respiratory system.
A profusion of Swords in a spread generally indicates a situation (or situations) involving ‘animosity’ and ‘struggle’.
Appearing in a spread, Swords can tell of a stagnant situation or situations changing in short time.
Swords bring ill-feelings out in the open to be dealt with.
Swords suit in Minor Arcana (Blades, Knives, Scimitars, Feathers, Arrows)
Swords correspond to Spades in a regular deck of cards. Their Greek element is fire. They stand for forceful action, power, and firm decision. In the four classes of feudal society, this suit is linked to that of the aristocracy, the warriors and rulers.
When a Swords card appears in a reading, its message is about action needed or already commenced, drastic change because of necessity or circumstance, ambition, competition, defense, and other things that demand resolve and bold activity.
At first, Swords had a curved shape, until they became straight and the Spades in the Western deck. They are often given to engineers, aristocrats, and battles in history.
The Swords research many initial ideas. They think about them, talk about them, fight for them, arrange and prevent things that distract the matter. They make judgments based on reason and logic. Their ways often bring pain and sorrow, things that cannot be resisted “the light of morality” will be destroyed without mercy.
The Swords in Minor Arcana represent machines that “fight and fly”. They represent intelligence, reason, logic, analysis and follow-up actions. They keep an objective view, even for themselves. The Swords focus on the transformation and development of ideas, as well as communication. Emotional control rigidly leads to fear of things that they cannot understand.
Their advantages are being able to recognize every aspect of the matter, consider them carefully, form clear perspectives on the subject, and be able to communicate with everyone. In terms of disadvantages, they use their logic and tactics to deceive others. The fear of losing the mind leads to extremely indifferent emotional connections that are hidden behind objectivity. In fact, the emotions of fear and grief in this suit are especially strong, besides, the anger and jealousy are also very huge. The Swords are quite slow with the emotions of expectation and desire. The Swords swirling in the air reminds the breath and the birth of the sound.
Swords within Tarot represent thought and inner consciousness. Rather than how Cups relate to emotions, Swords relate more to our beliefs, convictions and morals, and how we use our thoughts to make decisions. Swords are tied to the element Wind; Wind can be fast with a definite direction, or slow, gentle and soothing.
The Suit of Swords is associated with air. Swords are cards of the mind. They’ve got seriously cool, calculated, and harsh vibes. The Suit of Swords is driven by thought, and often tends to deal with decision-making, intellectual pursuits, planning, and analyzing. I often think of each sword in a card as a thought. Many of the sword cards are glyphs for overthinking, madness, or thoughts in conflict. The Suit of Swords stands in contrast to the Suit of Cups, and suggests that choices are being made with the head over the heart.