Knight of Swords: Knight in Shining Armour

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BASIC DESCRIPTION: A knight on horseback is charging through the card. He is wearing armour. His clothes, cape and feathered crest are red. There is a flower etched into his helmet. There are birds on his surcoat, breastplate, on the horses reins and in the sky above him. There are butterflies on the horses breast collar and a little red heart on the halter. The trees in the background and the clouds above his are windswept.

Our knight doesn't look like the type to sit and think does he? He looks more like an action figure charging through life. And yet being a member of the sword family he is associated with the element of air so unless he is reversed (in which case he will dive right in without a single thought) he does actually think before acting.

He is a thinker, a communicator, a talker. He is a very clever man who thinks things through and then takes action. Once he decides on a course of action, nothing and no one is going to stop him and he can be very, very assertive. But he also tends to be headstrong – he will use that mighty sword of his to cut through all opposition until he achieves his goal.

If ever there was a person who can change your thinking on a subject, the Knight of Swords is the man – his logic will run rings around you and bring you round to his way of thinking and onto his side. And if he doesn't – well, he really doesn't care for your viewpoint or perspective! It's not something he's interested in, in the slightest.

Before he comes to a conclusion, he has thought through, analysed, taken to pieces and put back together again all the ins and out's, pros and cons of any situation. He hasn't come to his position lightly. And once he has come to the his conclusion no one is going to change his mind. He acts swiftly to cure any problems or right any wrongs he sees.

He is the area manager who determines that you haven't done your quota of work and demotes or sacks you without a second thought. He is the stranger in the street who sees you being attacked and like a knight in shining armour he rushes in to help you. He is the person who sees injustice in the world and works to right it. It doesn't matter what the problem is, the Knight of Swords is the person who is determined to fix it. He uses his sword to cut to the heart of the problem and again uses his sword to fix it. If it means some people getting a nasty nick along the way, so be it.

The red he wears shows his passion for his 'projects', the birds taking flight show how quickly his thoughts lead to action, and the butterflies how quickly a situation can metamorphosise when the Knight decides to take action. Whenever the knight of swords is around you can guarantee that life is about to change.

Reversed the Knight of Swords can come across as a know it all who is full of hot air. His arguments are irrational and ill thought out and he will argue just for the sake of it. He uses his intelligence to cut to the quick and charges into action without thinking things through. He is a show off who doesn't consider the consequences of his actions.

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