Episode 50: Ace of Swords

Fortune’s Wheelhouse

With a crack of thunder and a whoosh of air, the Ace of Swords cuts through the clouds! In this episode we introduce the most turbulent suit in tarot, where geniuses and madmen reside and brilliance and doom go hand in hand. Swords represent our own human minds: they solve puzzles, plan and organize, attack and defend; they govern thoughts, conflicts, and words. Of the four suits, Swords are the most profoundly dual in nature. They cut both ways, for good and evil. Why, how, and in what ways they do so are the subjects of our inquiry.

We speak about the Ace of Swords' connection to Air and the Fool, as well as the air trumps Justice, the Star, and the Lovers. We consider the sword as the Magician's weapon, which helps him open doors to other realms, and the manner in which the ideas of one realm become the reality of the next. We talk about the letter vav of YHVH, as well as Yetzirah (the world of 'formation'), invoked vs. natural power, the North Pole, the nature of will and desire, crowns, symbols, serpents of knowledge, knights, errant, the concepts of thelema and agape, the many forms of love, the number 6 and the number 93 - and the mind itself as creation and destruction.

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