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Card Meanings: Bitter, Absent Mother, Repressed Trauma, Vindictive, Sly, Spiteful, Poor Communication, Scatter-Brain, Obsessive, Cruel, Rude, Dependant, Not Learning From Past, Malicious Gossip, Unforgiving, Pessimistic, Keen, Mental Fogginess, Cheater, Deceitful, Nasty, Dysfunctional, Manipulative, Harsh, Lack Of Empathy, Overly Critical
Here we see the Queen of perception and insight. It’s a hard thing to pull the wool over the eyes of somebody like this – they will look beyond the face we present and see to the very core of the being. That’s one reason why this Queen often represents a woman who stirs deep and complex reactions in the people who come into contact with her. They can feel uneasy, discomforted and awkward when being observed by her. But they may also feel open, relieved and glad to have found somebody with such long sight. On a day ruled by her, we need to practise our own powers of perception. Rather than dealing with the imaginal psychic quality which is rightly the realm of the Queen of Cups, we must now turn our attention to the everyday world. For, though the Queen of Swords is often highly spiritually developed, she is also absorbed by the intricacies of the process of life. Therefore she looks closely at what happens in life around her. On this day, try to remind yourself to study the interactions you have with others. Don’t just deal with the face value. Struggle to seek behind that mask for the whole being beyond.
Everybody takes up roles, plays out games, displays masks. We have ‘professional’ faces, which fit each of our roles. And we can become forgetful of the fact that every person we meet does the same thing. Only when we come to know a person well do we recognise the complexity that lies behind the mask. Recognise yourself when you take up a mask. Know that at this moment you are acting like (for instance) a working person doing their job, or a family member loving the family, or a person alone and taking a bath. Look hard at yourself. You take up roles. Use this day to begin to identify them clearly. Examine the way that you feel differently in each situation. And recognise that though each of those roles is an expression of you, not one single one of them IS you. Then take that realisation beyond you into the world…….
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Reversed Cards: The Queen of Swords is usually clear and levelheaded. She is known for her logical and rational ways, except of course when she is in the blocked aspect. Here she cant seem to find the answer she seeks or carve out the logical steps she knows she needs to take. Instead, her head is a bit of a mess and she is having a hard time stringing two thoughts together. This can be frustrating for someone in a leadership role, but it does happen. The best thing to do is to just deal with what is in front of you and leave the rest alone for now.
Tarot Triumphs: My acquaintance with the Tarot began in 1968. I was nineteen years old, a student at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and I had come to America for the summer vacation. Several of us had flown in for a three-month idyll of free rock concerts and hanging out in the sunshine. But it was the year after the Summer of Love, and the culture that had seemed so innocent then now began to take on a more sinister tone, with riots in Chicago and bad LSD trips beginning to take their toll on the flower power generation. I soon realized too that our student habits of wearing long hair and vintage clothing, considered harmless British eccentricities at home, antagonized the more conventional side of American society. I thought I was streetwise after teenage years in Birmingham and a year of counterculture in Cambridge, but it was a rude awakening. We had tear gas thrown at us on the streets of Berkeley, and we were hauled off to the police station for fingerprinting in Reno. Then, in Mexico, I was involved in a terrifying car accident in which I thought I was going to die. I had only minor injuries, but the experience was a profound shock that changed my way of thinking forever. I could not go on just drifting along on the stream; I needed to address the big questions of what life is about.
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Reversed Cards: Here in the reflective side of the strength card, you get the opportunity to see exactly what sort of strength is being called into question here. Is it mental, physical, spiritual, or emotional? True fortitude means knowing we can withstand anything that comes our way. It may not be easy, but it wont break us or drag us off our path. So as you gaze into the mirror aspect of this card, think about where you dont feel this sort of fortitude. Really be honest and identify which areas of your life have you distracted and feeling out of control. Truly explore who and what brings you to anger quickly and discover the triggers that pull you off task day after day. This aspect of the Strength card really is about observing. Watch yourself and how you interact with the people, places, and things in your life through the lens of fortitude. Think about using it as a journal exercise to open a dialogue between yourself and your courageous inner warrior.