Knight of Swords

The Knight of Swords is intellect at a charge. Fast, articulate, direct to the point of bluntness, and entirely unwilling to slow down for nuance or for you.

Decisive, rapid action driven by conviction. Say it directly. Excellent for arguments that need making and problems that need attacking. Ambition with a sharp edge.

Aggression, tactlessness, rushing in without the facts. Argument as a hobby. Or force that has run out of direction entirely.

Direct, intense, impatient. Someone who says what they mean immediately. Reversed, verbal harshness or a partner who argues rather than communicates.

Driving a project through by force of argument. Excellent in a crisis, exhausting in the calm.

Fast financial decisions on strong conviction. High risk of acting before the analysis finishes.

Truth pursued relentlessly. The limits of intellect as a spiritual instrument.

High nervous energy, stress, running hot. Gemini rules the lungs and nervous system.

A knight charges at full gallop, sword raised, cloak and horse's mane streaming backward. The trees bend. Birds fly in disarray. He is the fastest figure in the deck and there is no visible target.

Golden Dawn made him fiery air, the storm front. Smith drew all four Swords court figures under moving weather, and this is the only one where the wind is unmistakably being generated by the rider.