Courts, Swords
Queen of Swords
Make the distinction cleanly
Perception becomes valuable when it can separate a fact from a familiar explanation. Speak precisely, and let clarity reduce needless injury rather than sharpen it.
What can you say more accurately and more fairly?
Correspondences
- Element within element
- Water of Air
- Suit element
- Air
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Binah
- Zodiacal span
- 20° Virgo to 20° Libra
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. 166 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part III, Queen 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 seated queen holds a sword and a severed head; a winged child’s head forms the crest.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 166 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Queen of Swords.
Thoth: Queen of Swords.
Thoth uses Disks where this Book T text generally uses Pentacles. Its standing Knaves are called Princesses in the descriptive titles. The symbol note describes Book T, not a reproduction of the Thoth artwork.