KNIGHT OF SWORDS – love

The Knight of Swords in love is the card of a charge. Fast, hot, direct – and there's no shield on it.

If you are in a relationship, this card almost always signifies the moment when something needs to be said. And you will say it, there's no doubt about that. The only question is: when and how. Because the suit of Swords is the word, and the Knight is the one who cannot wait with the word.

The card doesn't tell you to be silent. It tells you that your love and your truth don't want to speak at the same moment. Your truth wants to speak now. Your love could wait until tomorrow.

If you are single: this card indicates a very fast approach. Someone who bursts into your life – captivating, dynamic, immediately knows the answer to everything. Not a liar. They just don't listen thoroughly. With them, the first two weeks are wonderful, the third is exhausting.

The card doesn't ask you to run away from them. Just this: don't let their pace be your pace too. Someone who truly loves can bear for things not to be decided today.

If you are the knight in this relationship – and often you are – then look at one thing: where is your shield? It's not there. That's why you wound faster than you'd think, and that's why it hurts you more than you admit.

Winning the argument is easy. Keeping the person is slower work.

I know there's a sentence building up inside you. It's been in your throat all day, and tonight it wants to come out.

The angels are not asking you to swallow it. Your truth is true. What you feel is valid. And you are also right that this cannot be silenced forever – this card is never about silence.

Just look at the picture for a moment. The knight's sword is up. The horse is galloping. And the shield is missing.

This is you right now. You are not malicious. You are defenceless. Someone who approaches a conversation this way not only wounds the other person – they also expose themselves to everything that comes back.

That's why tonight they are asking you for only one thing. That message you want to write: write it. Really write it, don't hold it in. Then leave it until morning.

What is true at eleven at night will still be true at eight in the morning. Your truth won't spoil overnight. But what you send at eleven, you can't take back at eight.

This is not cowardice. This is the difference between a sword and a wound.

If you are alone and someone just came along and stirred you up: it's good that they stirred you up. Just don't make a decision at their pace. Someone who truly wants you will be able to wait for it not to be decided today.

Your momentum is good. Your heart is in the right place. Just slow down enough to see where you are going.

In reversed position: you've already said it, and it cut. It's not irreversible. Two words are enough: I'm sorry, I got carried away. That's all. Tonight, this is your courage.