| The 6 swords is a card often regarded as difficult to | | | | it is hard to explain what the real difference is when |
| read from a personal perspective. Its keyword is | | | | you really understand the concept you have known on |
| science yet it has imagery that is very spiritual. I look at | | | | the surface for such a long time. |
| the overview of this card's meaning in the Thoth deck | | | | So this card is about learning and about studying - both |
| and point to a variety of ways it shares with us its | | | | on the surface, knowledge of something - as well as |
| message. | | | | the deeper 'knowing' of something. This knowing brings |
| So the basics, as a 6 it is a perfected number and | | | | with it a feeling of self esteem as you understand your |
| corresponds to the position of Tiphareth on the Qabala | | | | own position within the world and knowledge - |
| and this is the position of beauty and perfection of | | | | represented by the yellow surrounding some of the |
| heaven on earth. So it is the peak of the swords suit | | | | shapes. |
| here. The place where the intellect is at its highest | | | | There is also a sense that you can step even further |
| point. Understanding all the world in an intellectual sense. | | | | along this process - you have the logical understanding |
| On the card are the windmills of air showing | | | | of the world and then the click of knowing, to the final |
| movement and flux of the winds I feel rapid thought | | | | stage of creating sometime new. Having original |
| and understanding too . On a personal level it is that | | | | thought and being able to come to a new |
| feeling when you feel you are suddenly coming to | | | | understanding that perhaps another has not fed you in |
| understand things that were once a mystery to you - | | | | any way. Something out of your own creative well. |
| the click and ah-har moment we experience at various | | | | Not creativity in the sense of self expression but more |
| times in our lives. | | | | in the sense of creating new concepts and |
| So this card is associated with science in the general | | | | thoughtforms to describe and explain the world out |
| sense of the word - logic, computers, information and | | | | there or within. |
| communication of these 'facts' However this is only | | | | There is balance and harmony of thought here. Taking |
| one aspect there is a deeper level - the sense of how | | | | a step into more mundane readings this card also |
| the universe makes sense and the universal laws of | | | | might indicate a group working well together to create |
| spirit. You can see the cross in the center as a | | | | ideas and solutions that are more than a sum of the |
| representation of this. This card I feel is about coming | | | | parts or people who come together. A braintank, |
| to that understanding of how the world 'really' works | | | | brainstorm, to come to group solutions. I would also |
| from a spiritual perspective. Understanding the spiritual | | | | indicate work with computing, information delivery and |
| laws deep in yourself. You may at one time read | | | | data related things in all forms. |
| about concepts of manifestation, magick and the | | | | The underlying nature of the world can be expressed |
| spiritual laws written by mystics and masters | | | | through geometry, numbers and mathematical |
| throughout the ages, but this is only the beginning, real | | | | concepts, this card can also represent the |
| understanding only comes when these writings are | | | | mathematical ways we express the world around us |
| internalised and become a part of your knowing - this | | | | and on a mundane level this card could indicate a skill |
| card is about that knowing... the sense that you knew | | | | with figures and understanding of the science of the |
| the words all along about a concept but that one | | | | world in the usual sense. With science at its edges of |
| event or click that has happened means that suddenly | | | | exploration becoming as if a spiritual system, or coming |
| you feel the knowledge as part of you, you 'know' in | | | | as a way to talk of events known by spiritual students |
| the deeper sense of the word. Often it is a place you | | | | for many years, quantum physics, electromagnetics, |
| come to which when you try and describe what you | | | | kirlian photography etc, the boundaries between |
| 'know' you find yourself using phrases and concepts | | | | science and spiritual beliefs merges - I feel this card |
| that seem well known to both yourself and others, and | | | | shows us how the two can be united. |