Courts, Swords
Knight of Swords
Use speed with precision
A quick mind can identify a route through confusion. Before pressing ahead, check whether the problem you are solving is the one that actually needs an answer.
What would make your decisive move accurate?
Correspondences
- Element within element
- Fire of Air
- Suit element
- Air
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Chokmah
- Zodiacal span
- 20° Taurus to 20° Gemini
Sources
The elemental combination and court span belong to the court descriptions. The two elements name the court’s mode and its suit, respectively.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 165 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part III, Knight 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
A mounted figure carries a drawn sword above driving clouds, with a winged star crest.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 165 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Knight of Swords.
Thoth: Knight of Swords.
Book T’s p. 159 footnote distinguishes the mounted father from the charioted son: its card headings call them Knight and King. Thoth calls them Knight and Prince. Read the figure and elemental role before equating court names across decks.