54-Five of Swords Reversed Golden Family Tarot Reading

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Family, Friends & Relationships:

In general, The reversed Five of Swords can indicate power struggles and conflicts. As they say, pick your battles. Not everything is worth fighting for or about. Consider your priorities and the things that matter most to you. Be as pleasant to others as you can muster.

Card Meanings: Revenge, Communication, Regret, Shame, Loss, Ending Conflict, Compromise, Overcoming Challenge, Escalating Violence, Defeat, Uncovered Crime, Major Sacrifice, Unfairness, Humiliation, Releasing Stress, Moving On, Risk Everything, Peaceful Resolution, Relentless, Remorse, Not Heeding Warnings, Arrest, Held Accountable

When the Five of Swords appears, you are likely to find yourself with some mixed feelings about life in general and about a few people in particular. Don’t ignore these, but don’t feel like you have to speak every word you’re thinking and feeling either, as you could ruin the very things that you want the most – such as close, intimate relationships with your friends and lover. Think several times before you really let someone have it even if they deserve it. Pick your battles.

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Elements of the Psychic World
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Elements of the Psychic World: One of the most well known lucks is the luck of Edenhall in Cumberland – a cup made of yellow and brown glass, decorated with colourful enamel and kept in a leather case, belonging to the Musgrove family since the fifteenth century. There are a number of stories of how the luck came to be the family’s prized possession. The popular version is that one day the butler came to draw water from a fairy well. He interrupted a group of fairies dancing and they left behind their drinking cup, which the butler picked up. As he left with the cup in his hands the fairies called after him:

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Creative Tarot: But if that Five becomes imbalanced, then there is trouble. If he uses his power for ego gratification rather than to help others, then he tips over into being the Devil. If he emphasizes his intellect too much, he can become cruel, and so he tips into the Five of Swords. If he overemphasizes his emotions, he can be disappointed, and so he tips into the Five of Cups. And so on.

Tarot Triumphs: The twenty-two archetypes here represent a complete mirror of the human psyche or a situation. All are at work in shaping that picture, and all must be considered. The Fool’s Mirror layout thus safeguards Tarot readers from making too much of the appearance of the less ‘fortunate’ cards and seeing them too readily as harbingers of a gloomy fate. The fact that all the cards are included puts a useful brake on interpreting the less attractive ones in their darkest sense.

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Reversed Cards: Think of this appendix as your own personal cheat sheet to the cards by their numerology profile.