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Queen of Swordsfor Gemini · Health and Energy

Queen of Swords tarot card

"Independence isn't the question. What you do next is."

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On the card

Her right hand raises the weapon vertically and the hilt rests on an arm of her royal chair the left hand is extended, the arm raised her countenance is severe but chastened. Swords represents thoughts and the queen card represents maternal energy. Together the queen of swords represents a figure who upholds fairness. She has many different responsibilities and she must keep the peace between them-- so she is fair and in the pursuit of doing the right thing by all.

Upright
IndependenceClear ThinkingDirect CommunicationPerceptiveness

You are being called to be a judge in a situation, you must be rational and care for the outcomes of both parties. Romantically, perhaps you or your partner has responsibilities beyond just the relationship (perhaps a child or ailing parent they must attend to) and you must decide how to proceed. Perhaps you must decide between projects at work. Be strategic and calculated with your career moves. Do not be swayed by the emotional arguments of either side, listen to what you believe is true.

Reversed

You are being judged harshly (by yourself or someone else). This judgment can stem from bitterness over an emotional event and it has led to a punitive energy. This person does not want what is best for both parties or for the truth to be revealed, but is instead swayed by what will make their own bitterness feel less intense.

Its place in the deck.

Court cardQueen
One of the 16 court cards: a Page, Knight, Queen and King in each suit. A court card often stands for a person in your life, or a side of yourself you are showing right now.
SuitSwords · Air
Swords are the suit of Air: mind and language. A Swords card is always, underneath, about what you think, and the story you keep retelling yourself.
RankInward mastery
The Queen is inward mastery: holds the element internally, does not need to prove it.

Where it shows up.

In the stars
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AirElement
Thoughts, words, and conflict. In tarot: Swords.
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Queen of Swords for Gemini in Health and Energy

The Communicator

Swords are the air suit, so the Queen of Swords sits in Gemini. That makes this Gemini's own card, so nothing in it is being read from the outside, and the flattering interpretation is the one to distrust. What it asks for is the thing Gemini already believes it is good at: write the sentence down and stop rewriting it. Upright, this is the element held internally, by someone with nothing left to prove about it.

When reading about health through a Gemini lens, the Queen of Swords says that you feel like your body is a problem to research, something you understand in theory better than practice, and a thing you will address once you find the perfect plan (or once you finally stop waiting). This has either made you knowledgeable and eventually proactive or left you reading about the symptom for months instead of calling the doctor. The body has been sending the same signal for months and nobody has bothered to listen. The Gemini blind spot in it is stillness, silence, the moment when talking stops and you have to feel what you actually feel, the weight of having chosen one thing and not the other.

In practice that can look like anxiety with a real cause. Whatever form it takes, it is held by someone who has been through it already.

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