Okay, stop your kvetching! I know y’all hate the Three of Swords but sometimes, there is something for the card to say and we have to listen just as closely to it as we would the Sun for God’s sakes. Here, however, it pairs with the Two of Swords. And the message I’m seeing is empowering, okay?
All that suffering? It’s primarily choice—and one of thoughts, no less. Swords are all about thinking in the elemental paradigm I use at least.
It’s instructive that the Transparent Tarot’s Three of Swords shows the figure stabbing HIMSELF in the heart with one of the swords. You get that? He’s wielding the weapon of a belief against his own heart. But it’s crossed by the sword from the figure in the Two of Swords. On the left, it suggests the past. On the right, it suggests the future. He can stop that impending stab if he chooses to reframe the experience and move forward instead of back.
So sure, if you’re got a loss, acknowledge it. Three of Swords losses tend to be real, tangible and hurtful. The object of loss generally is not coming back…Understood. But also realize how PAINFUL that loss is depends a whole lot upon you and your choices in how to parse it. What it means is up to how you interpret, after all. Loss is not optional. But prolonged suffering is optional! Choose wisely.
Do you find this pattern to be true of losses?
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The Transparent Tarot by Emily Carding |
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