Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana
Prince of Swords
pure intellect · ideas · analysis · restlessness · planning
A reflective starting point
What is Prince of Swords 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
Your ideas are valid: choose one, give it a direction and put it to the test of facts.
At first sight
A brilliant person full of ideas, but changeable and little inclined to conclude; or a project that is still all in the mind. It points to complex reasoning, theories, plans that keep changing.
Within you
The pure mind that builds and demolishes its own architectures: a lively intelligence that risks spinning idly, detached from feeling and the body.
On the path
Air of Air, the Vau of Vau, referred to Tiphareth: the intellect in its own element, thought generating thought. He rules from 21° Capricorn to 20° Aquarius, where Saturnine ambition meets Aquarian vision, fertile in ideas but without emotional anchoring.
The shadow
Ill-dignified, he is indecisive, cynical, calculating, able to destroy for the pleasure of analysing.
Reversed
In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.
Confused and contradictory thoughts, projects multiplying without being realised, cold detachment.
In love, work and spirit
Love. A stimulating but distant partner; plenty of dialogue, little emotional intimacy.
Work. Innovative projects, strategic thinking, theoretical research; someone is needed to make it concrete.
Spirit. Using the mind as a tool of the Will, not as its master.
Correspondences
Tiphareth · Air · 21° Capricorn – 20° Aquarius
Crowley's note
The Prince of Swords in the Thoth deck drives a chariot drawn by small winged beings pulling in different directions; with the sword he creates and with the scythe he destroys: the mind that finds no rest.
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