Upright Meaning:
When the KoS appears upright in a love reading, he indicates that you are in love with someone who values intellectual capacities and bonds over emotional ones. He is someone with whom you have telepathy and great communication, someone who has a dry sense of humor and excellent sarcasm at their disposal.
If it’s in the future position, this card indicates that you will meet someone of great intellectual prowess and of high morals. Perhaps someone who is in the justice system, perhaps, or someone who holds a high professional position due to their sheer mental prowess.
It can also depict someone who is physically tall, slender, and has very sharp and unusual eyes (grey or electric blue, for example)
Conversely, this card indicates fatherhood or being with a father of your future child. It shows a person who will connect with their child on an intellectual level and someone who will raise their child by high intellectual standards. If accompanied by fertile cards that indicate childbirth, it foretells of a child who will be a genius and rise to high positions in life.
Reversed Meaning:
When KoS shows reversed in a love reading, it’s bad news. It represents a bully who uses verbal and intellectual manipulation to frighten and subdue their partner.
It’s not a pleasant card to show up in a love reading by any means. If accompanied by extremely disruptive cards such as Tower, Moon, and Death, it can indicate a domestic physical attack with a sharp object during a heated argument.
If it symbolizes you in a love reading, it means that you need to lay off, relearn kindness and empathy in your relationships and practice respect for others, especially those who spend the most time with you and suffer your sharp remarks and unkind behavior.
Unlike King of Wands reversed, this king is a calculated tyrant who executes his brutality in a premeditated manner in order to achieve his desired outcome.
If it shows up in a future position, this card is a warning to stay away from a person who will show up in your life as a love interest.
It’s giving you the heads up for the red flags and warning signs that you’ll be able to see a mile off – emotionally cold, switching between detached and interested (in you), mentally manipulating, and verbally jarring. You’ve been warned, keep your eyes open and ears muffled.