Swords · Minor Arcana
A hand issues from a cloud, grasping as word, the point of which is encircled by a crown.
A hand thrusts a sword up out of cloud, a crown at its point. This is the first cut that separates what is true from what is merely familiar. The air has been still too long.
Element
Air
Numerology
1— new beginnings, raw potential, the seed of creation
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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A hand issues from a cloud, grasping as word, the point of which is encircled by a crown.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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