Swords · Minor Arcana
He is riding in full course, as if scattering his enemies.
The Knight charges across the sky on a white horse, sword raised, cloak streaming behind. He is the storm that breaks a bad silence. Useful — but not sustainable.
Element
Air
Numerology
12— action, pursuit, movement, courage in motion
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He is riding in full course, as if scattering his enemies. In the design he is really a prototypical hero of romantic chivalry. He might almost be Galahad, whose sword is swift and sure because he is clean of heart.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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