The Knight of Swords Tarot Card Meaning: Upright and Reversed Meanings & Breakdowns
The Knight of Swords Tarot Card Keywords
Upright Keywords
Speaking without thinking, Spite, Catastrophising, Argumentative
Reversed Keywords
Radical honesty, Ingenuity, Thinking outside the box, Easily influenced
The Knight of Swords Tarot Meaning
The Knight of Swords, like all sword cards, rules over intellect, thought and communication. However, they also contain a fiery energy that is passionate and ready to take action. When the two are combined, we get an energy that feels hasty, rushed and sometimes vicious.
Often, the Knight of Swords can be linked with saying things in the heat of the moment or arguing your point. Sometimes it can simply be a matter of you taking radical action to defend yourself, but sometimes you might say or do things out of spite, to hurt or wound someone else.
The Knight of Swords can also be attributed to things like panic attacks, where the mind is actively trying to protect the body from an unseen danger, even though there is no need. The adrenaline that the mind releases is that fiery energy, but it’s not often an actual material danger; it is all in the imagination.
