Card of the Day: Daughter of Swords

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The Wild Unknown Tarot [/caption]

This young student of the Swords court sits attentively atop her short blade, seven rainbow-colored stars surrounding her in the night sky. She is still honing her chops with the attributes of the swords suit: discernment, insight, analysis, communication. She learns by watching closely. Out of balance or reversed, she slips into hypervigilance and loses her connection to herself.

What she has in spades is simplicity and honesty. Not always skilled at communicating the truth she sees so clearly, she is quick to call bullshit and has an allergy to hierarchical forms and injustice of all kinds. An eager student of ideas, forms, and systems, she thinks outside the box and can be a thorn in the side to organizations and institutions committed to maintaining the status quo. In other words, she’s a hero, witch, troublemaker, and squeaky wheel.

She’s also not necessarily a she! Interrogating these gender attributes in tarot is so important, I think. This card is called the Page in other decks and is a man. The energy of this card—youthful, original, risk-taking, eager, studious, challenging—has no gender. So feel free to embody this energy when you need it. When you hear someone say something rooted in white supremacy or patriarchy, or ageism or ableism—draw on this youngster of the Swords to give you the courage and insight to ask a question, or communicate your experience. Perfection is an illusion!