Suit of swords

The suit of swords is one of the four suits of the Minor Arcana in a 78-card cartomantic tarot deck. It is derived from the suit used in Latin-suited playing cards, such as Spanish, Italian and Latin-suited tarot decks. Like the other tarot suits, it contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page, knight, queen and king. Occultists claim that 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 much later to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes.