Your Chosen Card – Queen of Swords Reversed Thoth Deck
When reversed, the Queen of Swords suggests that you may not be coping well with a loss of something important in your life. Perhaps you are feeling grief-stricken or bitter about what you have suffered. It is important to avoid becoming ill-tempered or vindictive in response to your loss or privations.
Keywords Reversed: sad, embittered, worried, preoccupied, grief-stricken, isolated, abandoned, detached, ill-tempered, vindictive, cruel, icy, judgmental, hypocritical, cut off from emotions, unable to have children; loss, sorrow, worry, mourning, absence, separation, divorce, privation, emotional coolness, infertility, sterility, miscarriage, widowhood, a death in the family, malice, bigotry, intolerance, deceit, unreliability.
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.
Etteilla: Widowhood, sterility, privation, poverty; (R) a cruel woman, malice, bigotry, artifice, hypocrisy.
When Queen of Swords is reversed 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 reversed card reading for Queen of Swords using cards from the Thoth 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: As mentioned, the Golden Dawn occultists made use of Kabbalah to assign meanings to tarot cards. In particular, they paired the meanings of the numbered Sephiroth (emanations) of the Tree of Life with cards of the same number. The Tree of Life is oriented in space like the Hanged Man, growing upside-down. The initial spark of creation takes place at the top of the tree in the Sephirah Kether (‘the Crown’), numbered one. The roots of the tree lie in heaven, and its ultimate fruit manifests at the bottom in Malkuth (‘the Kingdom of Earth’), numbered ten. Keywords for the Tree of Life include:
Complete Book of Tarot: Card 1 was the Queen of Swords. This could represent an important woman in his life or a personality trait that he needs to cultivate at this time. If this card refers to a situation, it would involve a certain amount of sadness, grieving, or loss. The Queen of Swords is often called the ‘widow’ card because she is a woman who has experienced loss or privation. Interestingly, one of the traditional meanings of this card is ‘sterility.’
Tarot Card Meanings: Queen of Swords; generally this card is linked to sorrow, loss, suffering, mourning. These aspects should be taken in a more general sense but the card infers loss in some area of life and loss that is heavily regretted. Reversed; loss caused by outside influences, mischief, bigotry and deceit are all indicated.
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Tarot Card Meanings: Queen of Swords; generally this card is linked to sorrow, loss, suffering, mourning. These aspects should be taken in a more general sense but the card infers loss in some area of life and loss that is heavily regretted. Reversed; loss caused by outside influences, mischief, bigotry and deceit are all indicated.