Ace of Swords

Description & Symbolism

Ace of Swords

A hand issues from a cloud, grasping a sword, the point of which is encircled by a crown.

Divinatory Meaning

Upright

Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest, triumph of force. It is a card of great force, in love as well as in hatred. The crown may carry a much higher significance than comes usually within the sphere of fortune-telling.

Great prosperity or great misery.

Reversed Meaning

Reversed

The same, but the results are disastrous; another account says--conception, childbirth, augmentation, multiplicity.

Marriage broken off, for a woman, through her own imprudence.