Minor Arcana · Kılıç Şövalye
Active, driven pursuit of thought, conflict and truth.
Upright: air, thought, conflict and truth
Reversed: blocked, excess
He is riding in full course, as if scattering his enemies. In the design he is really a prototypical hero of romantic chivalry. He might almost be Galahad, whose sword is swift and sure because he is clean of heart.
Skill, bravery, capacity, defence, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin. There is therefore a sense in which the card signifies death, but it carries this meaning only in its proximity to other cards of fatality.
Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911 — public domain.