Your Chosen Card – Queen of Swords Upright Golden Deck
Queens are mature nurturing individuals (mother figures) who are responsive to the emotional climate surrounding the querent. They represent important women related to the current situation or significant personality traits needed by the querent to navigate the matter at hand. When upright, the Queen of Swords indicates a need to keep your wits about you as you go through a period of anticipated loss, deprivation, or actual grief. This queen has known sorrow but has matured and become more self-reliant as a result of her privations.
Keywords Upright: perceptive, thoughtful, mature, familiar with sorrow, introspective, self-reliant, independent, observant, subtle, clever, analytical, intelligent, just, critical, rational, dutiful, stoic, in control of emotions; weighing a decision, worried about an outcome, considering options, dealing with loss or abandonment, coping with grief; a strong woman who has known loss and privation.
Decans/Timing: 20 Virgo to 20 Libra. Tropical, 12 September12 October. Sidereal, 07 October06 November.
Astrology: Water of Air. The Queen of Swords gives birth to autumn at the fall equinox in the Northern Hemisphere.
Associated Trumps: The Hermit and Justice.
Jungian Functions: Feeling (Water) and thinking (Air).
When Queen of Swords is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If Queen of Swords is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Queen of Swords is trying to tell you. If you had a particular issue in mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.
This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for Queen of Swords using cards from the Golden Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.
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Complete Book of Tarot: The major arcana (the Hermit and the Magician) suggest that President Obamas spiritual lessons include learning how to deal with aggression in a contemplative, well-reasoned and skilful manner. The Queen of Swords is a model for the type of cool rationality that might help in situations of conflict related to warlike Mars. The Ten of Pentacles indicates that the president is likely to learn this lesson in his material affairs and in efforts to pass on his legacy to the next generation.
Complete Book of Tarot: Because of the confusion introduced by the Golden Dawn, some authors associate the Golden Dawn Princes (sometimes called Kings by the Golden Dawn) with the traditional Marseille Knights, and the Golden Dawn Kings (variously called Knights, Lords, or Kings by the Golden Dawn, shown as men riding stallions) with the traditional Kings of the Marseille deck.
Portable Magic: It is convenient to assign elemental Earth to one of the trumps, from a purely practical standpoint. However, it is contrary to the system of correspondences set forth in Sepher Yetzirah, where only three elements are linked with the Hebrew letters, not four. The Golden Dawn members may not have fully grasped that the trumps relate to the active spheres above the fixed realm of the four lower elements, and hence are distinct from the earthly sphere. Elemental Earth
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Portable Magic: It is convenient to assign elemental Earth to one of the trumps, from a purely practical standpoint. However, it is contrary to the system of correspondences set forth in Sepher Yetzirah, where only three elements are linked with the Hebrew letters, not four. The Golden Dawn members may not have fully grasped that the trumps relate to the active spheres above the fixed realm of the four lower elements, and hence are distinct from the earthly sphere. Elemental Earth