Ace of swords

 

At some point of our lives we finally feel that certain breakthrough has happened and we are now able to gain some clarity and resonance.

Your mind is in a very specific mode: it's a positive expansion and conquering of things that you thought earlier are impossible- it stems from different aspects that altogether make up something very special: a thirst of new challenges, your willpower and need to communicate things and not only verbally as well as will to pursue new opportunities. 

This is the moment when you might try to take up new activity. But funnily enough it will have something to do with a bigger picture - nothing personal and even more - nothing selfish or self-centred.

You might want to try fnd some truth and seek justice. With clarity and conviction - you are more than sure to suceed.

On the reverse side - all the greatest ideas you have might be excellent but you might not want to share it with anyone. Your grudges and resentments as well as procastrination and lack of faith in yourself may keep you at hand.

There are many aspects that may cloud your judgment. Now it's good to put these aside.

King of Swords

 

What has been happening? The life rolls its dice and you feel lots of clarity now - your intellectual abilities and how you use them make you feel like things been ok. At the same time you ask yourself if keeping your emotions and deeper feelings at bay can help you to actually understand people in their depth - in their imperfections and their inaccuracies - even despite the fact that you know how to get to the core of things. 

Do your homework and your math - before deciding research well what are the options, the ins and outs. Your logic can greatly help you in that. You can find a mentor or a good help in a person of someone who knows legal aspects of the situations. Don't wait too long.

You amy think that you have certain amount of power over others. Don't misuse it and don't get flamboyant about it. It can be to your detriment and it will show quite quickly. It has a reverse side but the aspect of the character in this card is clearly showing how thing can turn out when you are taking advantage of others - it can take advantage of you.

Especially when you are indecisive - delaying and procastrinating is never working to your advantage. Most importantly - stay at your course and use any advice necessary.

Queen of Swords

You have achieved your goals, you sit in a place in life when you feel that your unbiased judgement and your transparency of the intellect can help you to move on, to be even some form of help, counselling, authority. You lead your life and also lives of others.
There might be a trap here - you feel like that compassion or empathy can distract you from achieving your goals. You can connect with others through intellect rather than the world of emotions.
Your skill of assessment is very grounded -  you can tell the state of things - very quickly and without mistake. As a resilient and strong, independent person you will do well with showing people your softer side - it will encourage them and make them feel better as you may come across as cold and impentetrable.
And they will come seeking your counsel.
You might allow your emotions' chest to open as both yourself and those around you can acquire greater understanding of what is important and useful.
You may feel that your mistakes and relationships can shake the boat you are travelling.
But please don't think this way - you can still retain your sharpness of vision, unclouded and unaltered skill of good judgement.
Don't isolate yourself - people who need you will trust you - especially when you can balance both emotional and intellectual aspects in your analysis.

Knight of Swords

When we are determined - our mindset and our whole aapproach changes.
We are more driven and more prone to act on the strong will and ambition. Our determination is greater than difficulties and obstacles - we will get there no matter how.
The planning is not present here - we tend to act on impulse - you will be feeding on the high levels of energy and it will propel you forward.
The Knight of Sword urges you to be wary of an intellectual analysis rather than something that is a energetical discharge in the field of creating and achieving goals. You have all the necessary tools to fire up a good discussion and in the bigger picture a good communication especially within a community of like-minded people. This can lead to a positive motivation and coming up with great ideas that could be embellished through a discussion and becoming a leader.

On the other side of the coin, lies a completely different picture.
A vision of a person who doesn't care much about communication with people around her/him and also with herself/himself.
Maybe it's the time to slow down a little bit - a bit of mental discipline that can actually help you to focus on a singular goal rather than being torn between options and chances.
Sometimes true leadership requires a bit of experience that is being done alone and later with huge consideration of everyone else's dreams and needs.
It will come with patience... 

Page of swords

A new page turns now. Your knowledge and experience you gained so far will serve you well with opening to a new chapter.

But what it is really? The more you are curious and inquisitive the more you are prone to discover something new. New ventures that will spring out of nowhere can come now to a point where you can use something that comes to your life and can be used to move from one point to another.

Page of Swords invites a fresh perspective on things - looking beyond what you already know and find something that is not necessarily orthodox and predictable in a way that you would expect,

You can also explore new methodology of acting and doing things - move along and forward both in your thinking and your actions.

Try not to stop yourself to express what you really want and what is the truth that can help to open the new chapter of life. You might keep it to yourself and express it in your own, private environment or in a journal. This might be a good way to process it and prepare yourself to send a message across to those who need it.

Be careful with promises you cannot keep - it's the time to take action - rather than talk.

Ten of swords

The end of a certain stage in our life is often marked by somewhat painful experiences. It's an exhausting end game process that helps to burn out the illusions and perceptions we had throughout this stage of our lives.

It might relate to the relationship we had that has finished - we may feel betrayed and much to our knowledge - abused. 

Now it is definitely time to let go and surrender to what it is. Don't resist to change but just allow to take its own course.

Now it's the time to reflect on your experiences. Not down the patterns that played important roles in creating the whole picture of the situation. Learning from it and drawing wisdom from it - Now it's the time for it.

You may still carry the old wounds - but for what it's worth - it's important to look forward to new experiences and positive surprises that lie ahead. Time to reshape yourself and allow the new energy in. 

Nine of swords

Dark thoughts and self depreciating opinions might be something that can haunt you in the middle of the night. Stress and worry don't help here but create something that provokes prophecies to fullfil themselves.
The excessive energy of negative thinking is the weight that rarely anyone can handle.
Worries and the cycle of it can lead our perceptions into wrong direction - a wave of accusations towards our loved ones is one of the first steps that can open a Pandora's box of misery and ill-tempered emotions we can not control.
It's high time to reach out for help - there are tools and angles and reasons we might not possess at this time - the trusted ones can help us in that.
We can keep our worries private and feel we are n the top of things but this isn't really the case here.
Putting yourself down is one of the aspects of self-talk that will lead us to something we won't be able to resolve by  ourselves.

Eight of Swords

Every situation in our life is putting to trial our system of beliefs and forces our prejudices, everything we thought is true to resurface and pushes us to rethink our stand on many issues that we feel are either important, unimportant or peripherally unimportant.
How we shape our experience of life is primarily through understanding of it - and that can be achieved through what is a self-conscious apparattus of cognition.
Whether we try to alter it or not depends on how valid our understanding of reality is.
We naturally feel trapped and helpless in new situations or the ones that are challenging. It may be our job or a difficult relationship but it is a sign towards thinking that our superego - our system of values is no longer helping us.
It's not only a question of replacing the negative thoughts to positive ones but also understanding that certain situations as a life's lesson has no longer a serving purpose for us. It can be challenging and difficult but doesn't really transport us towards the next station. We need new perspective and new tools to reshape our life therefore we are prone to start something new and break the routine and the beliefs we have been holding up until now.
One of the tools that seem to serve us is the intuition - a welcome break, a change from dwelling on the thoughts that no longer are helping us at all.
Another aspect of this situation is the limiting self-belief. Something that never helps us in situation when we need reassurance and things can move much smoother. 

Seven of swords

Subterfuge...
How much can we put into achieving our goal? There are definitely territories of choices we don't necessarily want to pursue but there are also choices we are very much tempted to make.
In the whole nonsense and chaos of life we are always striving to do more than we actually allow our ethics to do.
How far can we go on betraying ourselves and others?
Everything is a strategy in the world of humans. We need to plan in advance. We need to speak and act in a specific way so we are able to put our message across. After all the whole world is a stage, and we are merely the actors that take different roles accordingly.
As a person of spiritual provenance - you will be probably forced to understand that there is very little behind the role if you depend on it and think as the only way to self-expression. It's the fact that the process of taking roles and playing it makes us feel that we are in a circle of life.
But there is a different circle as well.
Circle of things and matters that revolve around the very essence of you - your superego - the world of your values and the psyche - your emotions - those visible and those hidden, unconscious ones.

Seven of swords can pose as a warning of self-betrayal and betrayal coming from other sources as people we trusted.
It is also helping us to choose a shortcut to achieve something which we have to analyse and consider thoroughly. But it can ease of the tension that we felt - overwhelmed by things to come.
You are sometimes trying to escape something that you find difficult - this is the time to face it now.

Six of swords

Life is but a transition from one moment to another - from onechallenge to a different one. Moving on from things we know to things and issues that - despite being new - will put us in a position where we have to again remind ourselves where our straining points and wounds, or put it more optimistically - new lessons to learn are.
This is foremostly a lesson for us to understand how we can shed all the layers we no longer need to become clear about everything we weren't sure. We may carry a great deal of unfulfilled dreams, grievances, all the sadness. That is how we will travel now - frailty and sometimes cruelty to yourself for not embracing what is happening.
All these can slow down your personal growth - they are not the right tools to understand and measure the growth.
Six swords, set upright which you may think are your spine, your internal grounding tree.
What may they be?
Memories? Relationships? Adictions? Habits? Thought Patterns? Beliefs? Behaviours?
...
The truth may lie somewhere else. You are able to create your own rite of passage being self aware of those mentioned above or maybe your list is more specific? Use them wisely to restore yourself and find out that there is nothing to lose really apart from things you know already.
The withdrawal symptoms are never easy to go through but pushing through your comfort zone can be only towards bettering yourself.
It's the understanding of the process can help you through it.

Five of swords

Those momentts in life wheliterally feel defeated come quite often as a surprise. We are never prepared for being at the loss of words, drenched with feelings of grief, sadness, overwhelming anxiety and unsure of what the future might bring, We feel so even if sometimes, some battles seem to be the ones we won. But is that an actual fact?
The best way to assess it is through relationships and the state of them. The battles have costed you dearly - misunderstandings, judgment which is unfair, a sense of isolation and loss of trust - to yourself, to others.
But is it the objective fact to see things this way? Or maybe an appriopriate question would be to realign yourself again and see things from the perspective: Have I been to stubborn to admit that I wanted my perspective to be the most valid, belittling the others, and not giving them the chance to express their stance?
Picking your battles seems like an advice and a notion that can help you to be more at ease with what is happening in your life. And lives of those you are connected to.
Brooding longer and trying to prove you were right brings more challenges to your relationships and invites less and less common sense in coming to any sorts of agreements.
Let yourself be disillusioned. After all a failure can also be a powerful lesson towards wisdom.