A hoodwinked female figure balances two swords upon her shoulders. _Divinatory Meanings_: Conformity and the equipoise which it suggests, courage, friendship, concord in a state of arms; another reading gives tenderness, affection, intimacy. The suggestion of harmony and other favorable readings must be considered in a qualified manner, as Swords generally are not symbolical of beneficent forces in human affairs. _Reversed_: Imposture, falsehood, duplicity, disloyalty.
A hand issues from a cloud, grasping a sword, the point of which is encircled by a crown. _Divinatory Meanings_: 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. _Reversed_: The same, but the results are disastrous; another account says--conception--childbirth, augmentation, multiplicity.
The face of this figure is dark, suggesting courage, and the bull's head should be noted as a recurrent symbol on the throne. The sign of this suit is represented throughout as engraved with the pentigram, typifying the correspondence of the four elements in human nature and that by which they may be governed. In old Tarot packs this suit represented money. The consensus of divinatory meanings is on the side of change, as the cards do not deal especially with questions of money. _Divinatory Meanings_: Valor, intelligence, business, mathematical gifts, and success in these paths. _Reversed_: Vice, weakness, perversity, peril.
The face suggests that of a dark woman, whose qualities might be summed up in the idea of greatness of soul; she has also the serious cast of intelligence; she contemplates her symbol and may see worlds therein. _Divinatory Meanings_: Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty. _Reversed_: Evil, suspicion, suspense, fear, mistrust.
He rides a slow, enduring, heavy horse, to which his own aspect corresponds. He exhibits his symbol, but does not look therein. _Divinatory Meanings_: Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude--all on the normal and external plane. _Reversed_: Inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation; also placidity, discouragement, carelessness.