• Upright: authority, power; keenness of mind; courage • Reversed: authority corrupted; dominance; evil intention •
Artist: Alison Stone
I am very sleepy because I
did not get enough sleep this
makes it difficult for my brain to
function. Recommended
remedy: sleep. Instead, I eat an unusually large
amount of food, lounge around with
old National Geographic magazines, and
finally get around to telling
this deck: “Wake me up.”
The King of Swords
sits on a narrow throne in the blue wilderness.
This king leads with his keen mind and his
sharp tongue and even sharper, keener blade.
The cutting edge of his sword
shines with some light of its own.
He lifts his eyebrows as if,
without them lifted,
his heavy eyes might close,
his lazy lids might touch,
his head might nod in sleep,
his arm might fall and slice the blade
across his own bare neck and thus
relieve his body from his brilliant,
sometimes over-bearing mind
forever. Even kings must
even kings need even kings must
sleep. Is tired.
This king.
