Our Inner Queen of Swords - The Double-Edged Mind

The Path Towards Sovereignty Using Tarot's Queenly Court

This post is the final installment (of four) in the exploration of the tarot court’s sovereign Queens. During each full moon at the end of 2025, I have explored how we invoke the elemental Queen. December 4th, 2025’s full Cold Moon in Gemini occurs at 3:14p PST. It is a rare sequence of the third and final Super Moon to close out 2025. The Queen of Swords and Gemini correspond with the element of Air. This is potent energy to close out our year.

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We are quickly approaching the winter months, and the Cold Moon in Gemini has begun. For many of us, this begins the period of self-reflection, release after mercury retrograde, and significant shifts in our lives. Communication is key, and reflection with oneself and others offers guidance on what’s to come. The Super Moon energy amplifies everything, so it may feel like a series of grand revelations.

This energy propels us into 2026’s card of the year - The Wheel of Fortune (2+0+2+6=10). Gemini’s energy of communication, self-reflection and release will deliver us to The Wheel of Fortune’s blessings for luck and new opportunities. Not every opportunity is lucky, but despite this we see new elements come into our lives. The spin of the wheel feels like the fates are dictating the next great thing, our turning point. The Magician (1+0=1) grants us the ability to manifest these opportunities as the wheel spins, inspiring an active manifestation through skills and energetic effort.

We are exploring the sovereign nature of the Queen of Swords, the last queen in this series. The astrological energy we are currently experiencing weaves its way into her sovereignty.

The Sovereignty of the Queen of Swords

• Our Queen’s minor arcana element is air. However, queens also correspond to the element of water, therefore she is recognized as “air of water”. Notice the river in the bottom left corner? It’s small compared to the large curtain of cloud behind it, but cannot be dismissed.

• A hypnosis coach and astrologer in town, Evelyn Zuel, sent a Gemini full moon email this week introducing the idea that even our agile-minded Gemini Queen’s ideas (air) ultimately come from her imagination, manifested by a feeling (water) beneath them. This is what she says:

  Let’s say you are ready for a secure, loving, and mutually receptive relationship and that’s what you want to bring into your life. Rather than focusing on what you don’t currently have, you imagine with as much detail what it would feel like to already be in that ideal relationship. This is in a way, training the nervous system to learn how to identify that feeling by teaching it what it feels like in the present. Does this sound a little Pisces delulu and brain washy? Kind of, but if ALL begins in the mind and our personal worlds are constructed by how we perceive our own reality, then the key to manifesting the life you want starts with how you choose to think about the current reality that you are in.

• The Queen of Swords possesses an intellectual, agile mind capable of working through just about any problem. She breaks it down into logical steps, solving issues via delegation and strategy. She’s cool and calculated, using her sword to slice through the bullshit to get to the core of the issue with blunt and honest communication. In other words, she is disciplined, discriminating and rigorous. She’s the CEO, the lawyer, the researcher, the scientist, the doctor, and the programmer. She get’s things done.

• The Queen of Swords’ shadow can be devastating when she gets wrapped up in the her ideal conditions which are not there. OH, THE ANXIETY (humanity)! A full unravelling occurs when faced with redundancy and unrealistic expectations. The underlying theme is intolerance - and when it happens, it happens big. Sharp words, my friends, with internal and external meltdowns.

A clear heart and clear mind will allow you to speak your truth, always.

- The Light Seer’s Tarot

Here’s the spread I pulled to explore the nature of the Queen of Swords.

I pulled the Queen of Swords out of the deck first, then removed the 3 remaining queens. I shuffled as normal. Please do it the same way if you attempt this spread. I chose not to use reversals, as I want the full energy of each card.

Throne (bottom-right): Queen’s Sovereign Domain of Air

• The Sun (Fire/Active): Ah, The Sun. I really love this for our Queen. She is one to sit in her mind’s agility to traverse her world, but when does she get a chance to find the joy and happiness within her natural rhythms? The Sun reminds her that to balance her mind’s dominance one must remember to light the fire within to see the good in the world around her. This will safeguard her from her shadow chaos.

• Looking at The Sun card, it is clearly a fire element - the sun is our hot ball of light in the sky, illuminating everything on our planet. But what lies under the rays of the sun? Our airy atmosphere, the wind, the clouds. Our Queen can take her sovereignty from the core idea that above all of her mental agility lies fire, energy, and inspiration.

Throne (bottom-left): How the Queen Moves Into Sovereignty

• Judgement (Fire & Air/Active): Judgement is considered both air and fire (depending on the interpretation), and isn’t this perfect for our Queen considering her relationship to The Sun? Judgement is the card of intellect and conscious realization - and the synthesis which fuses mental clarity to both spirit and ideas. Self reflection on past experiences achieves understanding, bringing integration.

• Our Queen must master this ability to move through the currents of her life. Without integration of spirit and ideas, imbalance is sure to cause problems - too much light or dark can send her down a bipolar path of mental instability.

Throne (back): What the Queen’s Shadow Says

• Emperor (Fire/Active): You know, when I have an Emperor month he tends to kick my ass five times over - and this is what he does to our Queen. Rigid order and discipline are certainly a natural trait, but he sets it into overdrive. Too much discipline, too much intolerance for redundancy, and an unstable Queen.

Sword Handle: Focused Air

• Six of Pentacles (Earth/Passive): I love this card for our Queen. She is at her best when the give and take of reciprocity flows through her life. Embracing her generous spirit offers the grounded fulfillment and positivity she needs to remain focused.

Sword Guard: The Alchemy Between the Handle and Blade

• Three of Wands (Fire/Active): The Three of Wands is a wonderful card in this position, the guard of the sword. Our Queen surveys her domain, having set all the plans in motion. The source of this action begins with the handle, the generosity of the Six of Pentacles, to cross this bridge to the blade’s sharp focus. Also, the Three of Wands resembles the horizontal guard of the sword.

Sword Blade: Focused Air

• Ace of Pentacles (Earth/Passive): From the focused reciprocity of the Six of Pentacles comes the Ace of Pentacles’ blessing to use this philosophy in everything our Queen does. Her agile mind directs her actions, and her spirit of generosity (the integration from Judgement) propels her towards successful sovereignty.

Observations

• We have three major arcana fire cards surrounding the Queen - that’s some powerful energy!

• The sword’s focused air shows passive pentacle energy, bridged by active wands.

• Elemental Count: 2 Air, 1 Water, 2 Earth, 4 Fire

• Elemental dignities: We have two themes in this spread.

  • Air-Fire pairs indicate a strengthened (dignified) interaction. This is supportive for our Queen.

  • The sword is interesting - The pentacles surrounding the wand guard are dominant (dignified) to one another. More support for our queen. The wands guard is neutral to the both surrounding pentacles, and being in the middle seems to play the role of the connector.

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Side note: I am very much like the Queen of Swords: Pisces sun, Aquarius moon, and Gemini ascendent. The double air drowns out the Pisces like nobody’s business. Does this sound like our queen with the touch of water (Pisces) and dominant air (Gemini/Aquarius) combo? Hell yes.

I am literally the least dreamy Pisces you’ll ever meet because my head won’t shut up. I do have the highly intuitive side which steps in when needed (ahem, tarot, ritual, etc.), but it’s a rough combo. 🤨

Give me the goddamn crown and coronate me already. 👑

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Thank you for reading through to the end! As always, I encourage my subscribers to attempt this spread to explore their own inner Queen of Swords.

I love to chat in the comments:

• Anyone who attempts this spread and comments with a brief summary can claim a freebie 30 minute zoom reading with me.

• What does your inner Queen of Swords look like?

• How you express your inner air/sword?

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Catch up on this series!