He 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.--A.E. Waite
The Knight of Swords represents the fiery part of Air; he is the wind, the storm. He represents the violent power of motion appliedto an apparently manageable element. ... He is a warrior helmed, and for his crest he bears a revolving wing. Mounted upon a maddened steed, he drives down the Heavens, the Spirit of the Tempest. In one hand is a sword, in the other a poniard. He represents the idea of attack.
The moral qualities of a person thus indicated are activity and skill, subtlety and cleverness. He is fierce, delicate and courageous, but altogether the prey of his idea, which comes to him as an inspiration without reflection.
If ill-dignified, the vigour in all these qualities being absent, he is incapable of decision or purpose. Any action that he takes is easily brushed aside by opposition. Inadequate violence spells futility. "Chimaera bombinans in vacuo."--Aleister Crowley
When the personality of the Knight of Swords is already part of your situation in some way, it may be a sign that some balance is needed. Excess is only helpful in short bursts (the wise were right!). Are you always forcing your position on others? Do you get in lots of trouble for saying what you think? Is your partner too cold and aloof? Do your colleagues tend to be critical rather than supportive? Perhaps it's time for a change.
On the other hand, if there is little of this Knight's energy in your life, he may be telling you that a dose of clear-sightedness is just what you need. Balance your life by moving toward him ...at least a little. Are you too emotional? Let your head rule your heart next time. Do you overvalue the opinions of others? Trust your own authority. Are you afraid to offend? Go ahead and speak your mind. Let the Knight of Swords introduce you to his world of reason and self-assurance.--Joan Bunning
He appears first with boots and insignia shining as the rider on a black horse, charging in a gallop neither he nor horse can control, across the heath over the giant grave-mounds, scattering the black-faced sheep, path in a parallax of unhurrying fatality, presiding as monuments do over the green and tan departure of summer, the dust-colored lowlands and at last the field-gray sea, a prairie of sea darkening to purple where the sunlight comes through, in great circles, spotlights on a dancing-floor.
He is the father you will never quite manage to kill. The Oedipal situation in the Zone these days is terrible. There is no dignity. The mothers have been masculinized to old worn moneybags of no sexual interest to anyone, and yet here are their sons, still trapped inside inertias of lust that are 40 years out of date. The fathers have no power today and never did, but because 40 years ago we could not kill them, we are condemned now to the same passivity, the same masochist fantasies *they* chereished in secret, and worse, we are condemned in our weakness to impersonate men of power our own infant children must hate, and wish to usurp the place of, and fail. . . . So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death.--Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
The embodiment of goal-oriented mental activity. He knows where he is bound, and will not rest until he arrives at his destination. He has remarkable powers of concentration. Thoughts and ideas come to him with lightning speed; he is a master of imaginative and flexible thinking, which he uses to achieve his goals.--Gerd Ziegler
He genuinely enjoys sharing ideas and mingling with people of different cultures and kinds. The purpose of his travels will be to teach, rather than to convert.ŠOpen-mindedness and an innate wish to help others give him the potential to be a valuable mental health worker, if he can learn to be more of a listener and less of a talker.Š He is an excellent companion to cerebral types. He is stimulating intellectually, with the ability to make abstractions come alive. Ideas and more ideas flow from himŠ--Jean Huets
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