Knight of Swords
Minor Arcana · Swords · Air · 20 Capricorn - 20 Aquarius
Upright
Skill, bravery, capacity, defence, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin. There is therefore a sense in which the card signifies death, but it carries this meaning only in its proximity to other cards of fatality.
Reversed
Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance.
The picture
He is riding in full course, as if scattering his enemies. In the design he is really a prototypical hero of romantic chivalry. He might almost be Galahad, whose sword is swift and sure because he is clean of heart.
Correspondences
Astrology
20 Capricorn - 20 Aquarius
Elemental formula
Air of Air
Golden Dawn name
Prince of Swords
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.