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Knight of Swords Tarot Card Meaning and Art Marseilles Pattern Trumps

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Designation

Knight of Swords

About the Deck

Marseilles Pattern Trumps

A typical French tarot pattern.

Provenance

France, 18th Century

Tags

swords-12, knight-of-swords, knight, swords

According to Many Schools of Thought

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Young dark man. An enemy. A spy.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Upright

A soldier, man of arms, satellite, stipendiary; heroic action predicted for soldier.

Reversed

Dispute with an imbecile person; for a woman, struggle with a rival, who will be conquered.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

A Soldier, a man whose profession is arms, Skilfulness, Capacity, Address, Promptitude

Reversed

A conceited fool, Ingenuousness, Simplicity.

Knight of Swords from the Marseilles Pattern Trumps Deck