Tarot card

Ace of Swords

Ace of Swords: clarity and decisive force capable of creation or destruction. The card joins the air nature of Swords to its place in the numbered sequence.

2 correspondences · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 without a cited source · Ace of Swords in full

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The oldest attribution here is Suit and element Air, first attested 1888 CE.

Suit and element

  • Air

    Traditional
    Who says so
    No school has been identified
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet checked

    Swords express the powers of Air: thought, judgment, conflict, communication and force consciously directed.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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Sephirah and number

  • Kether

    Traditional
    Who says so
    No school has been identified
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet checked

    The Aces are the roots of their elements, force before it has entered a particular situation. Book T places all four in Kether, where Spirit first moves through the elemental scales.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Of the Aces, pp. 9–10

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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