Minor Arcana · Kılıç Kraliçe
Mature, nurturing mastery of thought, conflict and truth.
Upright: air, thought, conflict and truth
Reversed: blocked, excess
Her right hand raises the weapon vertically and the hilt rests on an arm of her royal chair; the left hand is extended, the arm raised; her countenance is severe but chastened; it suggests familiarity with sorrow. It does not represent mercy, and, her sword notwithstanding, she is scarcely a symbol of power.
Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation.
Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911 — public domain.