Minor Arcana · Kılıç As
A pure new impulse of thought, conflict and truth.
Upright: air, thought, conflict and truth
Reversed: blocked, excess
A hand issues from a cloud, grasping a sword, the point of which is encircled by a crown.
Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest, triumph of force. It is a card of great force, in love as well as in hatred. The crown may carry a much higher significance than comes usually within the sphere of fortune-telling.
The same, but the results are disastrous; another account says—conception, childbirth, augmentation, multiplicity.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911 — public domain.