The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT If ill dignified, cruel, sly, deceitful, unreliable, though with a good exterior. Rules from 20° W to 20° Δ, V of A Queen of the Sylphs and Sylphidesl XV THE PRINCE OF THE CHARIOT OF THE WINDS King ofSwords A WINGED King with Winged Crown, seated in a chariot drawn by Arch Fays, represented as winged youths very slightly dressed, with butterfly wings: heads encircled by a fillet with a pentagram thereon: and holding wands sur- mounted by pentagrams, the same butterfly wings on their feet and fillets. General equipment as the King of Wands : but he bears as a crest a winged angelic head with a penta— gram on the brows. Beneath the chariot are grey nimbus clouds. His hair long and waving in serpentine whirls, and whorl figures compose the scales of his armour, A drawn sword in one hand ; a sickle in the otherl With the sword he rules, with the sickle he slaysi Full of ideas and thoughts and designs, distrustful, suspicious, firm in friendship and enmity; careful, observant, slow, over-cautious, symbolizes A and 9; he slays as fast as he creates. 167