The Tarot Cards of the Minor Arcana
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The Queen of Swords
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| Her right hand raises the weapon vertically and the hilt rests on an arm of her royal chair the left hand is extended, the arm raised her countenance is severe but chastened; it suggests familiarity with sorrow. It does not represent mercy, and, her sword notwithstanding, she is scarcely a symbol of power. |
| The Queen of Swords represents widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation. |
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