Queen of Swords
Element: Air | Season: Early Autumn | Astrology: Libra, Virgo | MBTI: INTJ
The wind carries away tangled thoughts and the false surfaces of things. Wind chimes ring softly as glowing souls sway along their fine threads in the breeze. As they brush against one another, they produce crisp, chiming sounds—telling us that the wind has passed. From within the clouds and mist, the Queen of Swords gradually appears. She holds a pair of scissors. Souls stained by turmoil need not speak—she can hear their differences with her eyes closed. When the scissors fall, confusion, problems, and restless emotions vanish like smoke. The world’s most direct method lies plainly before you.
Symbolism:
The Queen Formed from Cloud and Mist: Represents a higher-stage transformation and mastery of the air element. The Queen possesses exceptional insight and wisdom, often grasping the essence of matters and resolving them with clarity and objectivity. Gentle in appearance yet firm within, she upholds principles and may lean toward excessive rationality. Her closed eyes signify perception beyond the five senses, while her cloud-like hair reflects agile and fluid thinking.
Scissors: A tool for filtering and handling matters with speed, precision, and decisiveness. They symbolize fairness, impartiality, and the ability to cut away confusion, showing both action and resolve.
Wind Chimes: A concrete manifestation of the air element, also symbolizing authority and the Queen’s command over wind.
Butterflies: Echoing the butterflies of the King and Knight of Swords, they represent the air element and freedom.
Threads: Another tangible form of the air element—linking human thoughts and spirit, while also representing the Queen’s power and control.
White Flowers: Emphasizing rationality and the removal of confusion, white flowers symbolize purification.
The Sword: Different from the scissors in the Queen’s hand, this sword bears blood—indicating that when necessary, she will wield force to eliminate harm. It also reflects her iron-handed resolve.
Upright:
Coldness, seriousness, iron lady, icy beauty, strong woman, quick thinking, rational clarity, cautious attitude.
Personality: Clear-minded with rigorous logic, deeply perceptive, skilled at analysis and judgment, fair and objective, precise and powerful in communication, emotionally stable and mature, committed to truth and principles, balancing wisdom with compassion.
Relationship: A balanced view of reason and emotion, clear emotional boundaries, sincere and direct communication, valuing intellectual compatibility, maintaining independent judgment in love, mature handling of emotional matters.
Career/Studies: Outstanding analytical and decision-making abilities, fair leadership style, precise problem diagnosis, strengths in legal consultation, depth in academic research, talent in negotiation and mediation, expertise in strategic planning.
Finances: Rational financial planning, accurate investment analysis, wise spending decisions, fair distribution of resources, wealth management based on sufficient information.
Advice: Maintain objectivity and fair judgment. Act with calm rationality and avoid emotional interference. Use your wisdom and insight well, but do not lose human warmth—let your discernment become guidance for others.
Reversed:
Obsession, harshness, isolation, sharp tongue, grudges, ego, closure, pessimism, severity, rigidity, cruelty.
Personality: Overly critical and harsh toward others, masking emotional deficiency with reason, stubborn resistance to change, using intelligence for psychological control, cutting words that wound, lack of empathy and tolerance, judgments distorted by emotion.
Relationship: Excessive rationality damaging intimacy, using logic to avoid emotional exchange, critical attitudes eroding closeness, emotional coldness and distance, lack of gentleness and understanding, power struggles within relationships.
Career/Studies: Losses from misjudgment, critical attitudes harming teamwork, decisions influenced by personal bias, misuse of expertise for unfair competition, conflicts caused by communication style.
Finances: Financial judgments influenced by bias, missed opportunities due to over-rationality, investment analysis detached from reality, losses caused by stubbornness.
Advice: Excessive rationality and coldness will drive others away. Be like a clear breeze brushing the mountain—only the right wind allows the chimes to sound their most beautiful notes. Examine your motives and biases, restore the balance between wisdom and compassion, and learn to weave warmth into reason.