Ace of Swords
Minor Arcana · Swords · Air · Root of Air
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.
Reversed
The same, but the results are disastrous; another account says--conception, childbirth, augmentation, multiplicity.
The picture
A hand issues from a cloud, grasping as word, the point of which is encircled by a crown.
Correspondences
Book T title
The Root of the Powers of Air
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.