From the Roots of Asia, the Queen of Swords; from the Mahjongg Cards, the Sword:
The Queen of Swords is not a woman who will pat you on the head and send you home with a platitude. Neither will a wise Queen razor off your skin with a sharpened tongue and leave you bleeding. She recognizes that there is generally some good in the worst of us and some bad in the the best. Yet she will not hesitate to hold us accountable for what we say and do, counseling us to either make restitution or forgive ourselves. The Sword symbolizes a severing of indecision or vacillation. The Queen would tell us it is impossible to walk to separate roads of selfishness and benevolence or self-respect and self-flagellation. But in order to retrain our mind and its habits, we first need to pay attention, as Carol Wilson explains: "When we’re not aware of what’s present in our consciousness, we’re looking through its lens and it colors everything we’re doing."
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