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The both the B.O.T.A. and Rider-Waite Ace of Swords, illustrates a white hand (Kether is colored white on the Tree of Life as the purest light) exiting a gray cloud, holding upright a great sword that is supporting a crown strewn with an olive branch and a palm. Implied by the palm of suffering and the olive branch of peace are the dual possibilities of action attributed to the "Sword (Mind) of Good or Evil". The Crown is one of the symbols for the 1st Sephiroth-Kether, on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. The six Yods (flames of Spirit) imply that this is the "seed " of the Solar Logos, that is Tiphareth, the 6th Sephiroth called Beauty, which is attributed to the Christ or Buddha mind both of whom suffered and spoke and acted on peace.

The Rider-Waite-Smith and B.O.T.A. Ace of Swords, are exactly the same in image, the exception being that the B.O.T.A. Tarot Ace must be hand painted by the aspirant. The Divinatory meanings are also exactly the same. Here is triumph, and the excessive degree in everything. This is a card of the great triumph of force, in love as well as hatred.

WHEN THE ACE OF SWORDS IS THROWN DURING A DIVINATION,

It implies;

• Mental clarity and inventiveness.
• Problems being overcome with Original thinking.
• The dawning of a new intellectual process.
• Acting with logic and discrimination
• Strength in adversity. Out of evil some good will come. Something that looks bleak can surprisingly turn out to be promising.
• The beginning of and idea or information. The arising of Inner insight.

If reversed it implies:

• This card depends on the surrounding cards to show whether it is fate or rebirth.
• Doom, this is the card of Morgan the Fate. 
• Finality, Tragedy, and ultimate fate; However, it is release, freedom from past restraint and a new lightness and/or a kind of salvation.

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