What does the Knight of Swords tarot card mean?

As with the meaning of any other card, the meaning of the Knight of Swords must be compared with the current circumstances and other cards in the spread. However, his appearance is rarely a "passing" one - he reacts with exceptional precision to the emergence of heated situations in the querent's life, and in combination with unfavorable cards, indicates that the situation is desperate. The spread will tell you what the matter is about – difficulties at work (Wands), personal relationships (Cups), or financial troubles (Pentacles).

What does the Knight of Swords reversed mean?

Reversed, the Knight of Swords loses the remnants of his prudence (of which he didn't have much anyway) and usually his characteristic competence. This is an insolvent person, incapable of what he encroaches upon. The reversed Knight of Swords is like a failed murder: the knife is bloody, but he couldn't manage to actually stab someone.

What does the Knight of Swords mean in love?

The Knight of Swords is definitely unfavorable for any kind of relationship. A hot head and a cold heart create the wrong atmospheric combination. An explosive situation of hostility and confrontation, conflict; the presence of hatred, animosity, taking pleasure in skirmishes, and harboring vengeful designs. In an unfavorable spread, it warns of violence, and sometimes of mortal danger. This card reports that the "hatchet has been dug up" in the relationship at this time. Whether it will be an angry five-minute bickering or a war of attrition, other cards will tell.

What does the Knight of Swords mean for career?

The card symbolizes, as a rule, a young person at the beginning of his career: he wants to show himself and others what he is capable of. He has both competence and skill, but they have not yet reached the highest level of development symbolized by the King. He is not an expert. However, he is a master at falling into a professional frenzy, and will unhesitatingly badger everyone to complete amazement and "brainwash" the lazier and slower ones around him so that what must be done gets done. In a professional sense, he is more like an assistant to an experienced police inspector – he acts on the principle of "grab and go," he completely missed half the subtleties, overdid it regarding the other half, put forward a hundred and five incorrect versions, but... he is still a specialist, knows what he is doing, and learns rapidly.

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Knight of Swords

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Knight of Swords

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Astrological equivalents: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius, Mars in Aries, Moon in Aries. Also Saturn/Venus as a symbol of coldness and strictness in relationships and contacts, or Mars/Mercury as the personification of a sharp mind and heated discussions.

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