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.

Four of Swords

Welcome to the next episode of our blog!

Today we have quite a special card that reminds us of something very important and crucial to understanding our life and what we are going through.

The key words that we can use here to bring our attention closer are:
Rest, Meditation, Recuperation, Contemplating as well as Exhaustion, Stagnation, Burn Out.

At times we are not only encouraged to see certain truths but even more - forced to understand them through our own physical state - the state of our health.
The importance of restoring our energy when we are not feeling great is so important that we often take it for granted.
The time of being productive can exhaust, but also a recent trauma or difficulties in any other sense can lead us to comprehension of withdrawal's importance.
Staying silent and inactive can be a good direction. Creating a wider space for being understanding towards yourself. It's something that we have to work through and work for and to remind ourselves how is it when we have a refuge available not through external means like money and time but through inner working. Funnily enough sometimes we are entangled in thinking that we actually need those external means to create it. It will come once we build an important, internal foundation.
It will help you to re-assess your progress, the process of achieving the goals.

We are often driven by willing and wanting to change all things at once. Itis definitely something that will bring our strength to a test. How much we can endure depends greatly on our judgement and how we manage our time and life forces.
We might also get stuck in stagnation and inactivity which has a counterproductive effect on the life flow. You are frustrated and you may be of passive approach - waiting for a change rather than creating the environment to make it.
Look into it to see how's its workings are.

Three of Swords

As we go through different phases in our lives, we might come to the point where the emotional and mental wounds and feeling of being hurt comes to the point where we cannot really put up with that. The words people say, that hurt us, setbacks, sadness related to that, everything that has been putting us down brings this very moment when a release is needed if necessary.

But don't get entangled into the swirl of emotions you are right to feel at this stage.

The painful period is about to finish ad eventually will help you to become stronger and feeling more self-confident. This is also the time when there are last straws to be felt and drawn. There might be a situation when someone is going to try to criticise you or pierce your heart with something innapriopriate. Don't lose your energy over that. It would help to stay calm and distanced.

What triggers you and pondering on it might be a good lesson of attention.

Self-talk and inner dialogue are extremely important here. The power of words and the message they carry is crucial to the quality of your thinking. And in a long run - the quality of your life.

Working on how to deal with all those harsh words you are dealing with is an indication where you should analyse your actions and intentions. It will definitely result in something bigger but it will also help you to see a wider perspective of your being among others.

Moving on from a loss is another lesson here. Allowing yourself to grieve and understand your pain...

Two of Swords

The decisions that lay in front of us often come with a big burden of something bigger than the issue that is related to the contents of the actual issue.
We are bound to choose and often it is a choice between lesser and the bad or good option but quite often our sense of things is being literally blindfolded. It seems like we have two options that only seem equally worthwhile. The part needs to be played by both our head and our heart.
Which also means that two other cards need to be drawn. Not necessarily literally but in terms of a deeper analysis of the situation. To add a different layer to what we already know. To give an insight into what we only may think we know. To look closer at the problems that are often the after-effect of our deeds and past mistakes.
We might be missing on something we don't know. The possible risks of the situation. The details we omit for certain reasons.
We also avoid the act of making decison. Delaying it for no reason or maybe just out of fear of something we only think we know.
Unfortunately it's not the case of something that will solve itself. We need to put a conscious effor towards it. Difficult decisions rarely come with easy solutions.
Don't overhwelm yourself with the deluge of information. Be introspective. Be yourself and honest to yourself.

Ace of swords

There is a new wave of energy coming and you can slowly embrace it. It has a mark of an intellect and the air energy which is about mental understanding.
You come to the point when something that bound you to certain events in your life cease to have meaning and have a quality that has become an matter of letting go. It's definitely the time when your internal dialogue could implement deeper understanding of who you are.
It might be an excellent idea to create a new project or initiate something that you have held back from for a long time. A great moment for a proper breakthrough.
Mentalising all the forces that drew you back is almost a necessity that can help to cut the ties with all the unnnecessary doubts.
On an every day life level it's a good period to find justice or find the grain of truth in what we live up to.
You might get still discouraged though... A reality check of ideas might not go well. Are they ideas that really interest you? Or maybe it's the case of having too many of them on your plate.
Ace of swords invites you to feel more confident about yourself by re-examing your ideas and shaping them to the form of the life you want. It's about the goals you set - think of it - they can be really measurable, valid, pragmatical, forward-thinking.

Queen of Pentacles

As we have grown and transitioned from being a child to your young adult life and then from being a parent in a long term relationship, we start to feel certain roles that we play or start to see how they were played by people we loved and maybe they are no longer there.
One of those roles is the archeytype and embodiment of a working parent. Someone very stable and reliable and giving such as a mother, a nurtuting figure - giving abundance and provider of both love and stability in material and emotional level. A person who helps to thrive but also on other level is helping to create great connections and alignments.
Prosperity and security gained through hard work is about providing it to yourself and others but also generating generosity and hospitality to the ones we offer love. It's the time to create some certain level of balance on both emotional and material level that is sustainable and a resource that is replenished easily.
Nurtuting others means also nurtuting yourself - while you put yourself into this type of work - you need to create a balance on both sides of the coin - otherwise the fragile construct of work-life balance won't be working as it is supposed to. Understanding this is quite complicated when all the problems heap up and we are in constant process of finding  the solution by simply working more and providing the material resources. But all in all it is usually a short-sighted way of solving things.
On the other hand - your family and home may be taking over and you don't have the mind to take care of your work and focusing on the goals in that area.
The conflict as such is inevitable - the moments when you think and talk to yourself about what would be the best situation, is coming. You need to be prepared to face it and slowly think through what is the best agreement, best additional help to ask for. There are always solutions.

Knight of Pentacles

Work and goals create a special kind of set up which can be an outlet for us to shape a plan or strategy to use the first and reach the latter.
Knight of Pentacles reminds us getting there not by the means of speed but by the means of hard work, routine, perseverance, even some a hint of obstinacy. If you are a person who can plan naturally and know the best course of action then it will be easier to achieve the goals using those tools.
Being meticulous and planning even tiniest details can enhance achieving what we yearn for.
It ia also accepting responsibility without any grudges or complaints. After all this is what you have signed for. It may not be exciting but definitely something that can work.
This  card encourages you to steer away from daydreaming - instead creating a plan that will work.
You may also feel stuck in a position that you don't necessarily like. There is not much to do here but just endure. You may also be stuck in a rut a little bit - maybe a bit of fresh air can help - metaphorically speaking - let yourself open to new ways or trying something new.
There is a warning here - you may have become a perfectionist to the point of being increasingly critical towards others, especially in your work environment. Be careful not too hurt other people's feelings - they put a lot of work into what they do. Try to notice that and respect that.

Page of Pentacles

Our life path is all about manifestations.
We tend to meander from one to the other - planing to use those we have reached to steer us to the next one.
Manifestations can be varied in nature. We can receive gifts of material nature from the Universe. It can be related to our accumulated wealth, career, anything to do with material status and finally our health condition.
We may be dismaed by the potential outcome but in the course of things what really matters is the inspiration, the way we can induce and drive our energy towards achieving certain goals - in other words - it's us who are resonsible for the shape and the contents of the manifestation.
Page of Pentacles is a premise of something quite successful - it encourages us to spread the wings and open ourselves to something we give shape.
On the other hand - we might have all the useful tools and we are on a brink of intiiating something new but we seem not to be entirely ready to open this chapter. It may be the awareness of being not entirely practical or we simply need to step down for a while in order to find more ways to embellish our vision - to see everything as clearly as possible.
The final point is learning from our past mistakes. Things that we have already experienced - teach us the best - because we know that these were meant for us - to use them in building our strength and wisdom.

Ten of Pentacles

When we are at the stage of achieving the goal we have strived for and tried to reach for quite a while, we often ask ourselves all sorts of questions:
- What is out there to be achieved?
- Can I achieve anything more?
- Is that what we have achieved is enough?
- Are the resources I have gained, an excuse to splurge?
There is probably less to worry if we are actually asking ourselves those questions. Problems starts when in our self-righteousness we are set in a mind position where questioning yourself is not an option - especially one issue.
The issue, I mean, is the wealth being a trap. We have forgotten that wealth should be thought of as a byproduct of abundance rather than the actual goal. We forgot about this as we knew what are financial setbacks means, what are the periods without a proper income and financial instability. We mistake our feeling of self-worth with an actual feeling of balance. And all this is surrounded by the fact that there is wealth to be achieved.
There are always some sort of drawbacks that are yet to be revealed. Our marriage or relationship ceased to be a true partnership, our bussines might not be on the right track, our job security might be at risk. All these problems can stem from the fact that we are not with ourselves. We might also lose the feeling of being reassured what is our actual goal in life, which very easily can be turned into certain sort of monetization. Our heart's yearning take a back seat here. Money is becoming the goal itself.
We lose the connection with ourselves, being deluded by an idea of success while the real success is being not only in balance with ourselves but understanding the reasons behind our behavioural patterns. This is obviously quite a big challenge when we take the path of just plodding along.

Nine of Pentacles

The time has come to reap the fruit of your hard work. Can you really feel it and believe it? I sense that it's not the case. Why so?
In the world of myth where there is a permanent lack of things and resources we rarely believe in things like harvesting what we have nurtured and worked on very hard. The idea of the process and development is quite often broken by the fact that we are assured everywhere that we are "not there yet"
But how about taking a bit different stance?
You deserved success, you have built quite a strong foundation of your work? Time to acknowledge it and feel this accomplishment as your own work.
By smart steps we can create our own financial independence. Abundance that is like a well - it helps us to look after ourselves in a sustainable way. And the first and most important step towards it is starting to feel you are in harmony with the world around you. The mindful resonance with your surrounding and the decision that is being made by choosing what not only suits you but feeds you is important.
There are lots of obstacles in the course of this action. First and foremost - your sense of value and self-worth. Investing in yourself starting with things you would normally take as treats - clothes, good food, can be a good guide.
You may also be working very hard but not let yourself feel the effect of it. The gratitude for that what we have achieved can be directed towards those who helped us but also towards the oneself.
Our needs can also be misguided. Do we really need all what we pursue? What in us begs to buy those things?
Ponder for a moment...