The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

Swords
KnightHe 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. Divinatory Meanings: 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.