tarot card meanings · minor arcana · swords
king of swords — tarot card meaning
- the governor
The governor of intellect, judgment, speech and its wounds: The suit as ordered realm; responsibility, judgment, mastery turned outward.
reversed
The king's virtue overdone or immature within the realm of intellect, judgment, speech and its wounds.
two philosophical anchors, cited
The ruler's account · Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.12 (spirit) · after Long
“Be ready to change your opinion if anyone can show you an error - governance begins with governable judgment.”
Governing a great state · Daodejing, ch. 60 (tr. Legge)
“Governing a great state is like cooking small fish - the lightest touch, or it falls apart.”
the question we would ask
Where does your authority end - and do you know it from the inside?
how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.