Queen of Swords
Queen of Swords
Number 13 Air queen
A swords card: thought, truth, and what you keep turning over.
Upright
clear sighthonestyindependenceexperience
Someone who has been through it and will tell you the truth. The Queen of Swords sees clearly, speaks plainly and does not soften things to be liked, which makes her unpopular and reliable. As advice: be honest, including with yourself, and do not confuse warmth with kindness.
Reversed
coldnessbitternesscutting remarks
Clear sight gone cold. Reversed, this is bitterness from old hurt, a tongue sharpened past usefulness, or independence that has become a wall. Usually somebody protecting a soft thing with a hard thing.
What is in the picture
A queen in profile, sword upright, one hand extended as though inviting someone to speak. Clouds below the throne, a single bird above.
What it says about…
The line a reading leads with, depending on what you said you were asking about.
A bit of everything
Upright: be honest and unsentimental about this. It is what it needs.
Reversed: old hurt is doing the talking.
Love and relationships
Upright: someone straightforward, who means what they say.
Reversed: guarded to the point of unreachable. Theirs or yours.
Work and direction
Upright: clear judgement, unclouded by who will be annoyed.
Reversed: criticism that has stopped being useful.
Money and security
Upright: unsentimental financial decisions. The right kind.
Reversed: a scarcity habit outliving the scarcity.
Me, honestly
Upright: you have earned your judgement. Use it.
Reversed: the armour is working and it is also in the way.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: decide on the facts, coolly, and do not apologise for it.
Reversed: you are deciding from old damage.
If this card leads
Be honest before you are comforting.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as maybe. Reversed, no.
“I can be honest without being cruel.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
