Small cards, Swords
Four of Swords
Truce
A deliberate interval can make thought useful again. Step back far enough to recover perspective, then decide what needs a fresh approach when you return.
What can be set down for a while?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Jupiter in Libra
- Suit element
- Air
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Chesed
- Ten-degree span
- 20-30 Libra
Sources
The numbered cards combine a sphere, a suit element, and a planetary decan. The Ace begins at Kether; Two through Ten follow the numbered spheres. These are symbolic correspondences, not a birth chart.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 183 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Four of Swords ↗
Spans use a starting boundary inclusive and an ending boundary exclusive. Older texts may describe the same interval with ordinal degree numbers.
Symbols
In the Book T design
The radiant rose returns at the intersection of four swords.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 183 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Rest from Strife.
Relief becomes possible after conflict and distress. The emphasis is on repose and a change for the better that follows an earlier struggle.
Thoth: Four of Swords.
Book T’s title is shown separately from the Thoth name. The symbol note below describes the 1912 text, whose design can differ from Harris’s painting.