Tip- if you are reading intuitively take a long look at the images on the reversed Queen of Swords. Do you see any shapes or letters within the image?

From my perspective the Queen of Swords reversed would represent a melting down of the colder aspects of her traditional personality when situated beside the Chariot card. The reason for this is because the Chariot card indicates a balance act of one’s opposing emotions.

Some readers see the Queen reversed to be a real bitchy person. I use that meaning as well when certain sword cards are beside her and even the 5 of wands.

Have you any other ideas with this duo?

Madame Seaqueen

Thanks for interesting posts! I’m an Cosmic Tarot owner myself and I use this deck intuitively as an opposite method to the RW which I tend to pretty much beside intution follow and interpret the inherent symbolics of. Today the Queen of Swords rv together with The Chariot came up in a layout. – How do you interpret the Queen of Swords when it’s reversed? Do you consider the reversal as an aggravation of the cold aspects of the SwordQueen or a diminuation of the meanings?

The best!

I enjoyed reading your comment. My posts on the blog seem to occur only over the weekends lately. I ran into quite a busy spell several months ago. You know how it is.

I would like to respond but not before I think over what I want to say. Most likely ( I think you already know that) I will be quoting your comment in the near future post to share with the readers.

Til then…..

reversed-edge means, of course, that the reversal is about to take place. It also often means a going-back-and-forwards-across-the-frontier effect: upright-reversed-upright-reversed and so on;

reversed-loss simply means the opposite of the upright reading;

reversed-waiting means that the timing for the upright meaning is wrong, therefore the querant is in a situation of strategic holding off – waiting for conditions to change;

reversed-regain means either that the upright meaning has been subjected to a radical transformation – the energy of the upright interpretation almost having taken a U-turn; alternatively, it means that the energy of the upright meaning was/is lost but is/will be regained, recovered or will return / reappear

In other words, the four cards, in the above order, can also represent a dynamic, four-stage movement through the state of reversal

I don’t know whether this logic would apply with other packs, but I think it would.

One comment on your interpretations: I have the strong impression that there are readers who don’t use reversed for PC reasons: they think that paying customers don’t want to be told that nasty reversals are in store for them! In Rainring, because reversal is a 1 in 4, not a 1 in 2 possibility (on the hard copy), reversal is a far less dominant effect. One other thing: we used the Rider-Waite at my tarot induction class, and I can understand why anyone using this would shrink from reversals: its interpretations are pretty sombre to start with, let alone the reversals!