What does Knight of Swords mean for career and work?

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

It is the card of the person you want in the room when something is on fire and the one you have to manage carefully when nothing is. The tradition is clear-eyed about both halves.

The practical reading is that speed is available and accuracy is the constraint. Where a decision is overdue, this is the right energy; where it is complex, it is the wrong one.

Decisive, rapid action driven by conviction. Say it directly.

Excellent for arguments that need making and problems that need attacking, and genuinely valuable in situations where hesitation is the expensive option.

As a person he is the one who will say the thing in the meeting. That is worth a great deal and it is not the same as being right, and he does not reliably distinguish between the two.

Aggression, tactlessness, rushing in without the facts. Argument as a hobby.

The last is the most recognisable: somebody for whom disagreement is recreational, who is enjoyable at a distance and exhausting to live or work with.

Also read for force that has run out of direction, where the speed has continued past the point where anybody could say what it was for.

Upright: decisive action, directness, conviction, speed, ambition

Reversed: aggression, tactlessness, haste, argumentative

• What needs saying directly that I have been softening?
• Where has my speed cost me accuracy?