About the Card
English Name(s)
The Ace of Swords
Correspondences
- Grand Etteilla: Card Number 63
- Petit Etteilla: Ace of Spades
Image Description
Emerging from the left side of the card, a pink-gloved hand holds a sword encircled by a crown. The black of the sword is shaped like a serpent that curves around in a circle to bite itself. It is patterned with red, blue, and green diamonds. The crown has ribbon bows and feathers tied to it. The sword hilt has a small oval portrait of a Harlequin at the bottom. There is a sun in each of the card’s upper corners.
Meanings
Upright
Extreme, large, excessive, over-the-top, extremely, passionately, excessively, furious, choleric, fit of anger, fury, rage, quarreling, choler, vehemence, animosity, transport, impulse, extremity, boundaries, confines, ends, limits, last, last extremity.
Reversed
Pregnancy, engendering, conception, birthing, childbirth, production, composition, fertilization, pollination, increase, augmentation, multiplication.