I've gotten into the habit of using scans of the Thoth minors as my desktop picture, letting each card stay there durings it's corresponding decan. Right now we are in the first decan of libra and the 2 of Swords, Peace. I just love this card, -it's a great card to be greeted by in the morning when I switch on the computer!
Lord of Peace, being in Chokma is the highest/first distinct idea of the swords (the ace being just the "seed" of the suit). I think Crowley says something about the word "peace" being seeminlgy so un-sword like, as we usually think of swords/thouhts as being constantly busy with their endless divisions and distinctions. But this is the ideal form of swords, in the supernal triad; above the abyss, where contradictions and opposites are complementary and in harmony. The blue lotus flower to me looks like the vishuddha (throat) chakra. This to me shows that the swords are born of speech -in language. Before we learn to speak our world is undifferentiated, we are not separated from our experiences. Language is by it's nature dualistic, by defining something you automatically exclude everything else from that definition. (This is why the words "nothing" and "everything" are impossible to grasp from an intellectual point of view -they are ultimately impossible to imagine with the linguistic mind).
So through speech, duality is born, which is symbolised by the two swords going in separate directions. But as this is the ideal state, they are fully balanced and in harmony. The opposites co-exist but are at peace -not at war. This is the state we should strive for with out intellectual minds, to embrace paradox instead of shunning it.
Libra symbolises the balance, and the moon to me suggests that the ability to harness the power of paradox comes from the unconcious mind. Also, the angels praying on the hilts of the swords seem to suggest this. So this card could be seen as a mind that has a balance and harmony of the unconcious and concious mind, which is necessary for the emergence of superconciousness.
Another thing...is it just me or do the hilts of the swords look like bearded men? And if the praying angels are seen as the arms, doesn't it look as if they are doing the Isis mourning/the sign of the dance of Asi?? Or am I pushing my imagination too far with this?