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The King of Swords in Tarot as an archetype. The features and influence of the sign of Aquarius.
Today we will talk about who the King of Swords really is.
What is the essence of the completion of the suit of air?
It is generally held that the court cards are more likely to show a psychological type, a role potential, a type of reaction or behaviour, and that they relate more to a person than to a situation or event.
However, it is very interesting to single out the energy of a court arcanum and bring it to life as a subpersonality, the energy structure of an event or an object.
The King in Tarot is an idea that arose at the very beginning, at the level of the Ace, passed through all the stages and turned into an invisible but tangible structure — a style, for example, or a character. And a fully independent structure at that, because the vibrations of the court cards, despite their “young age”, are felt by a person even more strongly than those of the Major Arcana.
So what is he like, the King of Swords?
He is an astonishing mix of the light airiness of the sign of Aquarius and the reinforced-concrete inflexibility of the King archetype, a form that cannot be flexible because it must be fixed.
Traditionally the King of Swords is associated with the sign of Aquarius, which is considered the most unexplored and least understood sign of the zodiac.
Aquarius belongs to the fixed cross of the air trigon, is ruled by the planet Uranus and is responsible for intellect, freedom and friendship.
If, for example, the intellect of Gemini is mobile, a little superficial, light and unstable, based on projections, and the intellect of Libra is precise, sharp, clear and fair, based on an aesthetic sense of inner harmony and on rules, then the intellect of Aquarius, ruled by Uranus, will rather be all-embracing, idealistic, multidimensional and broad. Based on intuition. That is why among Aquarians we meet the most freedom-loving people, highly eccentric and brilliant.
Gemini live in the present and are interested in everything (though they don’t see things through). Libra live in a world of ideals, measure everything, and are interested only in what they lack for balance and harmony. They are constantly on the move.
Aquarians live in the future or in their own worlds, into which they let very few people. And not for nothing! You can easily get lost there for a long time, like Kai in the fairy tale “The Snow Queen”.
Given the fixed nature of Aquarius, it is no surprise that the King of Swords is more likely to resemble a perfect, glittering ice sculpture that has just appeared before us, unexpectedly, straight from the Cosmos itself.
A man who transmits this energy simply rings with that icy purity, which has little in common with ordinary human notions of friendship and love.
You haven’t started yet, and he has already seen the continuation of the story in the future.
You want to become “one of his own”, but he doesn’t know what boundaries are, and he gazes at you with his steel eyes from an inhuman height of consciousness that is open to few.
This coldness may not be to the liking of the people around him. Then they will call him strange and perhaps condemn him.
His innovative views and ideas come from somewhere in the depths of the distant future, leaving no chance for those who are used to building relationships on the familiar basis of dependence, pity or other manipulations. And then we see a string of meetings and partings, sometimes swift and merciless for the other side.
Mercilessness is a strong quality of all the signs of the air element.
Can you live without boundaries? Then he is a suitable match for you.
Creativity is perhaps one of the promising lines for developing the ideas that have frozen into ice in the clear, light-blue or steel-grey eyes of the King of Swords.
Do you want a relationship with a man like that?
Study the bitchy ways of the Queen of Swords — for example, on our online Tarot courses and astropsychology courses.
Aquarius is highly eccentric and at times seems utterly soulless and cold. Yet the music of the strongest winds occupies the King of Swords more than the loveliest of ladies, if she has no strange peculiarities, wants the same as everyone else, is hard to get moving, manipulates or demands to be rescued and pitied.
So if you consider yourself “psychic”, see this world differently from most people, practise esotericism or the magical arts, and have a high intellect and a sharp tongue, your chances of a relationship with the King of Swords may well grow.
However, if you cannot bear the ringing silence and the cold of the celestial spheres, cannot read the future in the stars, and are looking for dependence and warmth, better not to get involved: stay in your own cosy backwater and wait, at least, for the King of Cups or the King of Pentacles.
A socially fulfilled King of Swords is an actor, a scientist, a lawyer, a doctor, an innovator in his field, a researcher and an uncompromising fighter for an idea.
So if you are pursuing a purely personal interest in some matter where the King of Swords has influence, it may never come to a result. “Bending over backwards” is not for him. Incorruptibility, stubbornness, intolerance of superficiality — that is what you may meet when you come to see such an official, employee or specialist.
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