In this chapter of the tarot course we will see, The Queen of Swords and its meanings. What does the Queen of Swords card mean in the Tarot? What does the Queen of Swords card mean in love, work, money or health? What is its spiritual meaning and what does it reveal to us? What does the Queen of Swords card mean upside down or reversed?
The Queen of Swords in the tarot
The Queen of Swords and her message full of reason and logic in a reading.
The Queen of Swords is perhaps the most beautiful of all the queens of all the suits, the only one with long, flowing hair, a sign that intelligence brings freedom, while intellect is a very seductive virtue.
Graphic description of the card
- The Queen of Spades rests on her throne and her grim gaze clearly shows us that she cannot be deceived by anyone, as she is extremely perceptive.
- In her right hand, she comfortably holds a sword pointing to the sky, and her left hand is extended as if she has something to offer to others.
- The card shows us that behind her is a spring sky, unlike the wintry appearance in most other Swords cards, and this lends a value and the quality of a growth to it.
- The sky is clear, representing the clarity of mind with which she considers matters of the intellect. The bird above her head, at altitude, symbolizes the ability of the mind to soar in day-to-day matters in order to arrive at appropriate solutions.
What does the Queen of Swords mean in the Tarot?
The Queen of Swords in natural position, General Meaning: The Queen of Swords already has the emotion that characterizes her femininity, but she has it absolutely under control, dominated and hidden.
She is an adult who has matured and has an iron control over her emotions, making her intellect prevail, which is severe and implacable.
She can think and analyze with total impartiality, under the light of concrete facts and the evidence of reason, without sentimentality or emotions influencing her at any time.
This does not make her emotionless, it is just her way of connecting to others through intellectual discernment. She likes to have all the evidence and logical information, the hows, the whens, the whys, the wherefores, because with that information in her hands she can effectively help others.
This card, like all court figures (jacks, knights, queens and kings) can refer either to you or to another person in your environment.
If the card is talking about you, when it appears in a reading it comes out to tell you that you need to use your thinking independently, you must judge impartially, based on factual facts and not on what emotions dictate to you.
This is the way you can make a correct judgment, arrive at a conclusion or determine an issue, with the absolute impartiality that your judgment gives you. Here you must not let sentimentality get in the way, for any emotional empathy, any easy emotion will divert you from the just result you wish to obtain.
It is not by using your emotions, your heart, but your head that will give you the best results.
You certainly have intense emotions, but you have learned to control them and keep them in check, you don’t let them overwhelm you and you use them when needed, because you may well give them, but your best side will always be to be a fair and balanced judge.
You are (or need to be) someone impartial, whom others look to for accurate advice devoid of extraneous things. You get to the point, to the bone, as relentlessly as the edge of your sword. You have a natural ability to see and determine things as they are, to “call a spade a spade”.
Your perception is directly astounding and a great intelligence makes you very perceptive, which makes it very difficult to deceive you in any situation. You anticipate and see things in advance, not from the emotional or intuitive perception that, for example, the queen of cups has or is the usual feminine characteristic, but you see the whole picture through your pure intelligence, your relentless logic and your reasoning without cracks.
When faced with a situation, problem or conflict, you don’t beat around the bush, you appeal to your judgment and go straight to the point, quick as an arrow, which gives you the reputation of being a hard, heartless person, although you don’t care because you know better.
You simply don’t let emotion cloud your judgment and there is no amount of mushiness or softness that can move you when you don’t want it to.
Your comments, words and views may be feared, but they are certainly respected, because at the heart of the matter your pure, if sometimes brutal, honesty reveals the purity of your intentions. You are a frank and straightforward person, and if you are not, the card appears to ask you to be, which at least at this particular moment, is what you need for your life.
The Queen of Spades expects the same attitude from others, so if this card is not talking about you but about a person close to you in your life, you will know that the best way to deal with them is to be straightforward, direct and honest.
If you present your situation in that way, you will not only get her full attention but she will look for the best way to help you with your problem or give you a solution.
Analyzing from another perspective, the appearance of being queen can mean the presence of a strong woman in your life, she is very present and she is someone not to be trifled with. She can be your wife, your mother, someone very close to your family, even your boss, the important thing here is that she gravitates in your life and this can be a great help as well as a huge counterbalance.
Some people find that this queen has an abrasive energy, so intense that it is difficult to resist, but at the same time she possesses a deep and impossible to resist magnetism that is given by her intelligence and intellectual power. These characteristics are certainly sensual and provoke admiration. These are your weapons to captivate people and to generate attraction.
You may or may not have these characteristics, but if the queen appears before you in a reading, she is marking you that this is what you need to be and do now, these are the weapons, this is the way, the formula, the answer you need for whatever it is you are asking or the problem that occupies your life.
Put your feet firmly on the ground and use your great intellect in all its power. It is your best path to a solution.
What does the Queen of Spades Card mean in love?
In the realm of love. The card does not indicate a third female person in the middle. It could be if other cards appear to support it. Perhaps, it may refer to the presence of a powerful woman in your life who can influence you for good or for bad.
She can be your mother, your mother-in-law, an aunt, your boss. She is a caring, tough person who seems to have no feelings.
If she is in your life to benefit it, you can count on someone who through her ruthless judgment will help you along the way, but if she is in your life as an obstacle, you certainly have a problem in front of you. She is not someone you can easily defeat, let alone defeat yourself.
Regarding love in the couple, fundamentally the card points out that you should be careful with your impulses to be too direct and forceful, avoid being harsh when you bring things up, or what is your truth. Most probably you are right, but you must be careful with the way and the manners.
The card does not indicate that the relationship is going badly, but there are some logical and rational drawbacks that need to be resolved. There may be differences of opinion in terms of thinking or philosophical positions with your partner, but this, as they say, people understand each other by talking.
You should try to show your emotions a little more. You have them and many, but you hide them because you think you are safe. Maybe this queen is a wake-up call that you need to put a little more honey in the relationship and not so much vinegar.
What does the Queen of Swords Card mean at work?
When it comes to work. The same presence of a powerful woman we saw in love is present here as well. She can be a boss or co-worker, a partner perhaps, hard, inflexible, who does not play with emotions but with the hard objective reality.
She is someone who can also benefit you, since her reasoning and logic will be very precise, but if this woman is against you, you do not have an easy scenario, she is a tough opponent and you need extremely solid arguments to defeat her or at least bend her power.
Personally, the card advises you that this is not the time to transmit your impressions or give your opinion at work. You may have everything very clear, but now is not the time to speak, because it will not be well received. It also asks you to avoid overreacting to the attitude or comments of others.
If you raise an issue, you should do so very calmly and cautiously, as people tend to react badly to those who surpass them intellectually or whose argumentation is more solid.
If you are unemployed, try to look around where there are strong women, that may be the right way to go and where you will find help. Maybe a powerful woman will show up to help you. If you use your reasoning and logic, you should have no trouble finding a job very soon.
What does the Queen of Spades Card mean in money and finances?
In the area of money, The Queen of Swords can announce that a strong woman is about to play an important role in your financial life. There is much to be learned from her, if you can be open to what she has to say.
It is a good omen card in general, as long as you use your logic and common sense in doing business, investing or in any matter involving your money. If you act intelligently, without being carried away by emotions or “hunches”, things will go well for you.
All spending should be very well controlled, do not let yourself be softened by those who ask you for money, nor spend impulsively.
What does the Queen of Swords card mean for your health?
As far as your health is concerned. The Queen of Swords with her harshness of emotions may announce that you are repressing them too much. That’s your style, but maybe you’re getting out of hand and you don’t want to feel anything or show that you feel anything.
This has hard repercussions on your body, every blocked emotion generates sooner or later a health problem, some disease or illness, so try to relax a little, let go and allow yourself to feel what your soul experiences.
However, this outflow of emotions should be gradual, you should still be cautious where. How and with whom you allow your innermost self to emerge.
It is important that you choose your battles, do not participate in all of them because you will be incredibly worn out, fight only in those that are most necessary or urgent to fight.
What does The Queen of Spades mean spiritually?
In the field of spirituality. The Queen of Swords asks you not to neglect your deepest and spiritual side. You are not affected to show emotions, but this does not mean that you do not have them, so at least being alone with you can allow you to feel them and live them.
Logic, reason, concrete reality is a plane of existence where you develop very well, but you should not fear the other more ethereal plane, there are also answers that you need, there is also a fundamental part of you, complementary to the other that you are day by day to the sight of all. Retreat into your inner self a little more, nothing bad will happen!
What does the Queen of Swords card upside down or reversed mean?
Queen of Swords with the card reversed, General Meaning: The Queen of Swords is all about using your intellect rationally, without being won over by emotions, so when this card is reversed it means that you may very well be acting based on your emotions, using your heart before your head, which puts you in a position of fragility.
You are probably very busy and involved in the issue at hand, but your emotions may be playing tricks on you and you may not be able to discern the situation or problem in a clear and rational way.
You are thinking and acting in a biased, partial way, with a clouded judgment, and not only do you fail to arrive at a satisfactory result but you are exposed and can be manipulated and deceived.
The queen when she comes out right is practically impossible to deceive, but here you allow yourself to be softened by your emotions and others can take advantage of this. You must detach yourself as much as you can from what you feel and focus on the logical, factual facts, for this is the only true guide with which you will be able to resolve the situation at hand.
This card indicates that your relationships with others are difficult, you allow yourself to be influenced and convinced, you need to be a little tougher. You do not want to be in disharmony with others, but sometimes you must defend your position, what you think, your ideas, what you perceive as your truth.
You are never going to please or please everyone, so this time you need to impose and assert your ideas even if they don’t like them or don’t like what they hear. And to do that, you must erase the “emotional memory” you have with those people, just anchor yourself in a logical reasoning and pure common sense. What you need most at this moment is to be deeply objective.
However, the card does not tell you to make a choice or a clear-cut decision. This is a card of multiple choices, and what is being presented here is only the way you should analyze and weigh those choices. You must be careful and meticulous and that will only be given to you by reason, as emotions will tend to confuse you and cause you to make false or bad choices.
In another, much harsher and negative analysis, this queen can point out that you are full of bitterness and resentment, your emotions are there but they are negative, pernicious, your heart is cold. You seem to have stripped yourself of all emotion and compassion for others.
In the quest to find a solution or resolve your issue, you disregard others, not their opinions or desires, but their emotions, which causes others to have a negative opinion of you. They may see you as a person who is all resentment, and that you are inflexible, which makes it difficult to talk to you or debate any issue at hand.
Everything positive related to the great intellect that the queen poses, when it is inverted, makes you at this time a very stubborn person, locked in their convictions, perhaps foolish to the evidence or other people, so the card asks you to urgently seek to focus again and use that phenomenal intellect in the right way.
On another note, if the card refers to a person in your environment and not to you directly, the queen can point to the presence of a very negative woman in your life who has great influence and power over you, or over the whole environment at this time.
She is someone irascible, closed-minded and foolish with whom it is useless to argue, but nevertheless she has great power and mastery over the situation. This means that you could be under a harsh influence from your mother, a mother-in-law, a relative, or perhaps an inflexible and surly boss.
She affects your life at this time by impacting it in a negative way, whether in your daily life, in your work or in your relationship with your partner. You must find a way to limit her power and limit her dominance over you and the situation.
So whether you are this queen or a third person, it is a clear indication of an obstacle, that there is a stone in the way. If it is someone else, you must find a way to neutralize it or reduce its strong impact, and if it is you, the card asks you not to “shoot yourself in the foot” in your eagerness to attack things.
Something that will happen if you let yourself be carried away by emotions at this time. Calm down and appeal to all your intellectual potential, which is a lot.
What does the Queen of Swords card reversed mean in love?
In the field of love. In some cases, this card can mean a third person, a woman, who is fully involved in your love relationship. It is not an indication of infidelity of course, which there may be, but rather refers to a presence that complicates everything, such as those typical situations where a mother or mother-in-law really make things difficult.
Regarding the relationship, you have adopted a cold and distant posture. You are closed to the other, you are inflexible and you are almost emotionless, which prevents you from having compassion. It could also mean that you are stuck in the emotional memory of what the relationship was and are unable to see the reality and the present of the relationship. You are anchored to a past that may no longer exist. You must listen to the other.
If you are lonely, the arrival of love may be delayed and you may be easily deceived now by people who are not what they seem. Your emotional need makes you fragile and you want to really believe in what is seen or offered to you, but you must look with a certain objective rigor.
It can also happen that others reject you because they see you as cold and inaccessible. Try to loosen up a little, the bad moments of the past will not necessarily be repeated.
What does the Queen of Swords card reversed mean for work?
As far as work is concerned. The Queen indicates that a very dominant, rigid and inflexible woman may be making things difficult for you. Confronting her with pure emotional reaction is futile. You must fight this battle using cold logic and relentless reason, for with the unquestionable certainty of the facts, she must give in.
You are now facing a time when problems with communication are frequent, no one seems to understand each other or come to an agreement. It is important that you try to maintain a rational posture and do not let yourself be carried away by impulses. This is not the time to raise deep issues, ask for salary increases or transfers. Stay in your center and wait for the clouds to dissipate.
If you are looking for a job, try to be clear about what you are offering and what you are looking for. This can be a confusing time of conflicting information. There may be disputes over jobs with others who are in the same situation as you.
What does the Queen of Swords card reversed mean in money and finance?
In the realm of money and finance. The Queen of Swords when reversed signals that miscommunications or misinformation can occur that result in situations that are detrimental to your money or investments of any kind.
Even errors that have to do with computer systems or a mistake of a financial institution that ends up hurting you, so you should be very cautious, without rushing into anything and conscientiously analyzing each step to take. It is time to wait and not to take risks.
It is likely that there will be discussions and misunderstandings with partners or close friends, even arguments within the family for reasons that have to do with money and the family economy.
What does the Queen of Swords reversed card mean for health?
As far as health is concerned. The reversed Queen of Swords means that you should be alert to remember to take any medication you are using to restore or maintain your health, as you may tend to be careless and not pay due attention to your health.
If you are undergoing any kind of treatment, do not hide information from your doctor; any piece of information, no matter how minor, is important.
There may be crossed or contradictory information, for example that by mistake you are diagnosed confusing you with another patient, or that you get a certain result of an analysis being wrong in reality, so be very careful with the information you receive.
There may be discussions and differences about the treatments to be followed.
Keep calm to limit stress, it is a time of discussions and uneasy communication. Breathe.
What does the Queen of Spades card reversed mean spiritually?
In terms of spirituality. The Queen of Swords reversed may indicate that a strong woman can really enrich your spiritual life now, however, it may do so in a way that is difficult to deal with or in a negative way.
Sometimes people teach us by showing us how we don’t want to be, pointing out our most negative things and of course no one likes to discover that, although later all that information will serve to change and improve.
It is possible that you are in a stage of much doubt and discussion of spiritual ideas, nothing seems to conform you, you distrust everything and everything ends in a rethinking. It is very good to question things, but try not to take the world ahead of you or offend others.
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