The Suit Of Swords
Your Guide To The Suit Of Swords In Tarot: The suit of swords in a tarot deck is comparable to spades in a regular deck of playing cards. In non-traditional decks, swords are also known as blades, daggers, or knives. East is the direction corresponding to the Swords and the element is Air. The Zodiac signs related to the swords are the airs signs; Gemini, Libra and Aquarius. Swords are considered Yang energy. It is the suit that represents the intellect, decisions and conflicts, communication, it is the realm of the mind. Swords are all about action, physical, working stages, change, force, movement, oppression, ambition, courage, trouble, and strife. Their main focus is on our mental level of consciousness, both thought and intellectual. The Suit of Swords represents the mind and truth. Truth can be sharp and penetrating like a double edged sword. When we learn the truth sometimes it cuts us like the deep penetrating wound of a knife. Positive characteristics associated with the ...