Episode 62: Knight or Prince of Swords

Fortune’s Wheelhouse

This week we face a steady wind: the Prince or Knight of Swords. The airy part of air, he rushes through his encounters with an unflagging force. He fights for his ideals, but also just for fighting's sake. Associated with the first two decans of Aquarius (the 5 and 6 of Swords) and the last of Capricorn (the 4 of Pentacles or Disks), our Prince is a revolutionary - a master at navigating his way from defeat, and impatient with the powers that be. "I know!" he cries. Been there, done that!

In our conversation, we talk about Saturn's airy rulership of Aquarius, the structures of society and the rules of time. We consider Saturn as the Creator and Destroyer, the sword and sickle, the dying god archetype, Galahad's pure heart, the monkey mind, futility of thinking about thinking, the secret crown, invoking and banishing pentagrams, the winged mini-Princes pulling the chariot, the , Green Man, hexagram 57 (xùn) proceeding humbly, snakes, the Fool, and the Star, the geomantic figure Tristitia (and its opposition to Laetitia), and the one hand ungloved for dexterity, the other gloved for protection - having it both ways.

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