THE TWO OF SWORDS, LORD OF PEACE RESTORED

   Your ally sits on a bench near a calm body of water. She crosses her arms, grasping a long sword in each hand. Since the swords are so long, with the tips of both swords extending outside of the picture, this balancing act obviously requires great strength and concentration. Your ally wears a blindfold, which perhaps is helping her to concentrate. She resembles the figure in Justice (Trump XI), who does not wear a blindfold, suggesting that justice is not blind; rather, true justice sees all. So your ally appears to represent something besides the force of karma. Since she is in the second Sephira ("Emanation" in English), Chokmah, a state of almost unimaginable power and energy, she is concentrating on balancing forces (a quality of Libra)--an act of great discipline in such a dynamic sphere. On the Tree of Life, the second Sephira balances the forces of the Source, establishing equilibrium. Your ally wears a blindfold to suggest that the force of equilibrium is at this stage a blind, primal state “outside” of nature, just as Chokmah is a supernal Emanation "above" manifestation, and she wears white to suggest how all colors together form one unified state “above” or “beyond" the diverse forms of creation. The harmony within diversity cannot be seen because the diverse forms exist on “lower” planes of manifestation, hence another reason for the blindfold. The sense of primal unity, willful balance and stability within the dynamic powers and flux of creation, suggested by water and the Moon, is what your ally provides, both on the personal level and the Universal level.

CORRESPONDING COLOR: Pearl-gray, iridescent.

Reversed: lack of balance, disharmony, confusion