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OBSERVATORY LOG

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QueenQUEEN OF SWORDS✦ ORBITAL ARCANA ✦

Swords · Queen

Queen of Swords

Boundary, kindness without self-erasure. A mind inhabited: clear, adult, unwilling to be used as a dumping ground or a blade for hire.

ELEMENT
air
NUMBER
Court — inhabit: boundary as kindness without self-erasure.
MODE
Inhabit — the quality lived from inside
SYMBOLS
a seated figure with a sword resting, the other hand raised in a gesture of no · a throne of carved clouds or butterflies, air made into a seat · a distant sea under a clear sky, feeling present at the border of thought · a look that has already heard the argument and is not available for a rerun

UPRIGHT

  • +saying no without a trial
  • +wit that does not need blood
  • +independence that can still love
  • coldness as a fortress identity
  • using the sword to keep anyone from seeing the sea
  • contempt for people who feel in public
IN LOVE
A grown, possibly reserved bond. Respect the no. If you are this queen, let someone sit near the sea sometimes.
IN WORK
Edit, counsel, the person who can cut a bad idea without cutting the person. Do not become the office winter.
IN SELF
You may live in your mind. Inhabit it well. You are allowed a boundary that is not a personality of ice.

REVERSED

The no is swallowed, or it becomes the whole climate — self-erasure, or a queen who will not be approached.

  • Blocked — the upright current exists and is dammed.
  • Shadow — the unused face of the card.
  • Excess — the current is overplayed.

Blocked Queen of Swords cannot hold a boundary. Excess Queen is all edge. Shadow Queen uses clarity as exile of the feeling-world, including her own.

WHAT WE WILL NOT SAY ABOUT THIS PLATE

  • a cold divorced woman
  • you need to be less harsh
  • lonely because you are too smart