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Ace of Swords

A 78-card digital tarot drawn in the tones of nacre and dancheong.

Ace of Swords

Clarity, breakthrough, truth, new idea, mental sharpness.

Keywords · Upright

  • clarity
  • breakthrough
  • truth
  • new idea
  • mental sharpness

Keywords · Reversed

  • confusion
  • clouded judgment
  • misused intellect
  • harsh words
  • false clarity

Confusion, clouded judgment, misused intellect, harsh words, false clarity.

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How this deck reads it

A hand emerging from pearl clouds raises a sword straight, and a crown and laurel branch hang at the blade's tip, compressing into a single vertical line the idea that judgment aims at the very seat of achievement. The jagged peaks and dark sky below show that this sharpness is raised not over comfortable terrain but over rough ground. The luster of pearl flows along the blade and clothes its keenness in material light, and the pearly hue of the clouds suggests that the source of that light lies skyward. The arrangement in which ornament gathers at the blade's tip rather than on the sword body reveals that clarity is a quality completed at the point of arrival, not in the process.

Artwork

A hand emerging from the clouds holds a sword crowned with a laurel wreath straight aloft. Mountain peaks rise in layers beneath the sword.

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