Court card · Swords · Air
King of Swords
Thoth: Prince of Swords
In a reading
The judge and strategist: decide by reason and principle, not mood.
- Upright
- Intellectual authority, truth, judgement
- Reversed
- Abuse of power, manipulation, cruelty
Correspondences
- Suit
- Swords · element Air
- Thoth title
- Prince of Swords
- Golden Dawn title (Book T)
- Prince of the Chariots of the Winds
- Astrology
- Air of Air; rules 20° Capricorn – 20° Aquarius
- Sephirah
- תפארת Tiphareth (6), Beauty (also Rachamim, Compassion)
- Court names
- Waite: King · Thoth: Prince · Golden Dawn: Prince
Card image: Pamela Colman Smith, Rider-Waite tarot, 1909 (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).