06. Six of Swords
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Number: 6
Card Title: Six of Swords
Esoteric Title: Lord of Earned Success
Numerical Keywords: 6: Harmony, Pleasure, Perfection
Numerical Attributions: Sun, Yellow, World, East
Intelligence: Mediating Intelligence
Element: Air (hot, wet)
Elemental Keywords: Mind, Ideas, Cutting
Elemental Attributions: East, Spring, Sunrise
Astrological Attribution: Mercury in Aquarius
Dates & Timing: January 30 to February 8
Qabalistic World: Tipareth of Yetzirah
Translation of World: The Beauty of Formation
Suit Color: Swords- Yellow
Keywords: Help, Labor, Messenger, Love Proposal, End of Worries, Flight.
Ill-Dignified:Heading for trouble, delay, no help, out of control, wasted efforts.
Interpretation: Your destiny is under your control. Success after anxiety. A journey by water. Any transition or passage. Concerned with the well beings of others. Can see your goals and they are reachable. Your survival and success require energy, patience, clarity. Concern about the past or future.
Reversed Interpretation: Out of the frying pan an into the fire. Danger in journey by water. Are you ignoring the logical solution?
Rider-Waite Imagery
The suit of swords is related to the element of air. It concerns matters of thoughts, ideas and the mind.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
A ferryman carrying passengers in his punt to the further shore. The course is smooth, and seeing that the freight is light, it may be noted that the work is not beyond his strength. Divinatory Meanings: journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient. Reversed: Declaration, confession, publicity; one account says that it is a proposal of love.
4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Six.–The voyage will be pleasant. Reversed: Unfavorable issue of lawsuit.
The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing
In the Natural Position: 4 Sixes = abundance; 3 Sixes = success; 2 Sixes = irritability.
Reversed: 4 Sixes = care; 3 Sixes = satisfaction 2 Sixes = downfall.
The Tarot of the Bohemians by Papus; tr. A. P Morton, [1896]
Signification of the Four Series of Minor Arcana in the Divining Tarot
SWORDS. Transformation. Hatred. War.
SIX. Equilibrium of the opposition. The enemy is rendered powerless at last.
The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]
Meanings of the Cards
58. Six of Swords.–Envoy, Messenger, Voyage, Travel; R. Declaration, Love proposed, Revelation, Surprise.
Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Aquarius II
A man with a long beard; and the signification of this belongeth to the understanding, meeknes, modesty, liberty and good maners:
Picatrix the Goal of the Wise by Ghayat Al-akim
Book "T" The Tarot
XL. The Lord of Earned Success:
Six of Swords
TWO hands, as before, each holding two swords which cross in the centre. Rose re-established thereon. Mercury and Aquarius above and below, supported on the points of two short daggers or swords.
Success after anxiety and trouble; self-esteem, beauty, conceit, but sometimes modesty therewith; dominance, patience, labour, etc.
Tiphareth of HB:V (Labour, work, journey by water).
Ruled by the Great Angels HB:RHa’aAL and HB:YYVHL.
Often the General signification of the Majority of a particular suit and of the particular signification of the either 3 of 4 cards of a sort in a reading:
- A Majority of Swords Trouble, sadness, sickness, death.
- 4 Sixes Pleasure.
- 3 Sixes Gain, success.
