Sunday, October 12, 2014

Happy Birthday to the King of Swords

Hello and Happy Birthday to the King of Swords,

who as I discovered, through my experience can have a double faced personality.
On one hand we have a clean cut, charming gentleman in the Jane Austen Tarot's King of Swords as pictured below:



Diane Wilkes seriously mistakens in her choice of King of Swords for Mr Darcy, when in fact I found that Mr. Wikham fits the description more closely. King of swords is mostly a predator of younger women (who seem to fancy him for all the wrong reasons) which he seduces and then abandons without any remorse. If challenged with a response for his actions/ evil intentions he becomes paranoid and accuses his victim instead.

On the other hand, I found through my studies that the King of Swords depicted in the HP Lovecraft Tarot is much closer to reality (please see picture below):


What we see here is a King of Swords wearing a mask on his face- showing how theatrical this person can be. We also can notice that he holds a head of a person he has beheaded showing the cruel, inhumane, unfeeling side of him. The King of Swords here plays victim, when in fact he is the predator.
At its best this person takes order and discipline to extremes without asking himself the damage he causes. His also a weak nature, unable to take decisions which only confuses the other people about his true intentions.
There is one question left, can the King of Swords change? well Wickham did, for monetary reasons. Are there any other incetives that can make this King change? Can he show his victims that he does have any regrets? Is he capable of compassion?

Today is also Aleister Crowley's birthday (139th birthday), the greatest magician of all times, but also known as "the wickedest man in the world". 





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