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?
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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.