Queen of Swords
Minor Arcana · Swords · Air · 20 Virgo - 20 Libra
Upright
Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation.
Reversed
Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.
The picture
Her right hand raises the weapon vertically and the hilt rests on an arm of her royal chair the left hand is extended, the arm raised her countenance is severe but chastened; it suggests familiarity with sorrow. It does not represent mercy, and, her sword notwithstanding, she is scarcely a symbol of power.
Correspondences
Astrology
20 Virgo - 20 Libra
Elemental formula
Water of Air
Golden Dawn name
Queen 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.