Swords · Minor Arcana
Her right hand raises the weapon vertically and the hilt rests on an arm of her royal chair the left hand is extended, the arm raised her countenance is severe but chastened; it suggests familiarity with sorrow.
She sits in clear air, her sword upright, her hand held out as though giving permission to speak — or to leave. She has seen what she has seen, and she does not pretend. This is the sovereignty of the honest mind.
Element
Air
Numerology
13— mastery of inner realm, nurture, intuition, depth
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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Her right hand raises the weapon vertically and the hilt rests on an arm of her royal chair the left hand is extended, the arm raised her countenance is severe but chastened; it suggests familiarity with sorrow. It does not represent mercy, and, her sword notwithstanding, she is scarcely a symbol of power.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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