SWORDS. ACE.
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 SUIT OF PENTACLES.
PENTACLES. KING.
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.