Six of Swords
Minor Arcana · Swords · Air · Mercury in Aquarius
Upright
Journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient.
Reversed
Declaration, confession, publicity; one account says that it is a proposal of love.
The picture
A ferryman carrying passengers in his punt to the further shore. The course is smooth, and seeing that the freight is light, it may be noted that the work is not beyond his strength.
Correspondences
Astrology
Mercury in Aquarius
Book T title
Lord of Earned Success
Decan
Mercury in Aquarius 10-20°
Meanings quoted from A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), public domain. Correspondences follow the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's Book T.