Suit of swords
The Suit of Swords is one of the four suits of the Minor Arcana in a 78-card tarot deck. It is used in Latin suited playing cards, such Spanish, Italian and tarot decks. Like the other tarot suits, it contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page, knight, queen and king. The suit represents the Second Estate (The Nobles). While Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play Tarot card games, in English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes. Cartomancy. In  divination, the suit of Swords is associated with masculinity and intellect, but also sorrow and misfortune. The element of air has been associated with the suit. Etteilla and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers equated Swords to the suit of Spades in the French pack.