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Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Two of Swords — Peace

Peace

Two of Swords — Peace

peace · balance · inner truce · harmony · reconciliation

A reflective starting point

What is Two of Swords — Peace asking you to look at?

Meaning changes with the position, the surrounding cards and your question. Take what follows as a language, not a verdict.

Upright

Allow yourself a truce: the present balance lets you clarify your ideas without hurry.

At first sight

Peace regained after a conflict, balance between opposing forces, reconciliation. It points to a temporary calm that allows reflection before acting.

Within you

The mind finding quiet by suspending judgement; the ability to hold opposing viewpoints together without forcing a choice.

On the path

Air in Chokmah, with the Moon in Libra in the first decan: lunar gentleness in the sign of balance. Peace is the intellect in its original form, before division becomes conflict: a fragile calm, because Air by nature moves.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, it signals indecision, stalemate, an apparent peace that puts a problem off.

Reversed

In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.

A fragile peace that cracks; prolonged indecision, conflicts avoided instead of resolved.

In love, work and spirit

Love. Reconciliation, calm after an argument; take care not to avoid important subjects.

Work. Agreements, mediations, a pause in professional conflicts.

Spirit. Mental stillness as the door of meditation.

Correspondences

Chokmah · Air · Moon in Libra

Crowley's note

Crowley crosses two swords joined by a five-petalled blue rose, against a geometric background: harmony born of the tension of opposites.

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