DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT
If ill dignified, cruel, sly, deceitful, unreliable, though with
a good exterior.
Rules from 20° W to 20° Δ,
V
of
A
Queen of the Sylphs and Sylphidesl
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THE PRINCE OF THE CHARIOT OF THE
WINDS
King ofSwords
A WINGED King with Winged Crown, seated in a chariot
drawn by Arch Fays, represented as winged youths very
slightly dressed, with butterfly wings: heads encircled by a
fillet with a pentagram thereon: and holding wands sur-
mounted by pentagrams, the same butterfly wings on their
feet and fillets.
General equipment as the King of Wands
:
but he bears as a crest a winged angelic head with a penta—
gram
on the brows.
Beneath the chariot are grey nimbus
clouds.
His hair long and waving in serpentine whirls, and
whorl figures compose the scales of his armour,
A drawn
sword in one hand
; a sickle in the otherl With the sword he
rules, with the sickle he slaysi
Full
of ideas and thoughts and
designs, distrustful,
suspicious, firm in friendship and enmity; careful, observant,
slow, over-cautious, symbolizes A and 9; he slays as fast as
he creates.
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