The Ace of Swords is a symbol of struggle, aggression, hardship, effort, and ill health, but swords also express intelligence.

Proper meaning: Fruiting

Period of greatest probability: 21-27 June

Obverse meaning: affirmation, victorious struggle; dynamism, sexual potency; love and economic success, wealth, celebrity; pregnancy, semen, childbirth.

Upside down meaning: violence, destructive anger; extremism, tension, frustration; excessive passion, envy; unbridled ambition, lawsuits.

Arcanum's advice: channel your energies toward positive goals.

Pairings

  • Next to the Bagatto: heralds conception.
  • Next to the Popess: heralds pregnancy.
  • Next to the Chariot: heralds help.
  • Next to Justice: a very demanding legal case.
  • Next to the Hermit: solitude.
  • Next to the Wheel of Fortune - good start.
  • Next to the Force: authority.
  • Overthrown between the Popess and Death: lethal pregnancy.
  • Overthrown after the Hanged Man: crime.
  • Next to Death: fears.
  • Overthrown and next to the Devil: problems of a psychic nature.
  • Next to the Stars: illusions.
  • Next to the Moon: work of plagiarism.
  • Next to Judgment: dream.
  • Next to the World: tensions on the way.
  • Next to the Fool - aggression.