58-Nine of Swords Reversed Rider Waite Spiritual Tarot Reading

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Faith, Spirituality Or Psychic Progression:

Card Meanings: Unselfishness, Learning To Cope, Letting Go Of Negativity/Stress, Extreme Guilt/Regret/ Remorse/Shame, Total Collapse/Breakdown, Healing, Depression/ Problems/Fears Escalating, Improving, Scandal/Malicious Gossip, Giving Up, Opening Up, Accepting Help, Hallucinations, Recovering, Facing Life, Good News, Light At End Of Tunnel, Night Terror

The Lord of Cruelty highlights dark influences in our lives – within or beyond us – that will do us no good at all. Here we see the smallest emotions of our race at work, creating damage and harm. Whenever it appears, it warns us that somewhere nearby there is danger lurking, waiting to cause disruption and sorrow. So we need to act very fast and decisively in order to nip trouble in the bud. Often, this card will be a comment on your own treatment of yourself – if you denigrate yourself and beat yourself up, you are facing the worst enemy of your entire life – you know your every weak spot, your every Achilles heel. You know just exactly what hurts you most, you have no defence against yourself, and you cannot walk away.

So…when this card assumes importance in your life, you must examine yourself first and foremost. Are you treating yourself badly? Are you giving yourself a hard time? Are you chipping away at yourself relentlessly? If you discover you are, it’s time to stop. Hurting yourself about things within that you feel unhappy about is as pointless as trying to carry water in a leaky bucket…..you cannot adjust what you see to be wrong, because you are too busy standing in judgement upon yourself to gain any form of perspective or objectivity. And without these two useful analytical tools, you won’t understand what you need to do to feel better, neither will you have the motivation or self-love to follow through. So….treat yourself with respect and tenderness whilst attempting to change what you do not like. Give yourself plenty of encouragement and praise for each small step you make. Don’t be cruel. If you feel convinced that you are in balance with yourself….next examine what you’re doing to others. Remember something…..there is never an excuse for cruelty. No matter what situation you find yourself in, there is always a better way to deal with a situation than to exert mindless cruelty which will damage you, in the long term, much more than the person you aim it at. Finally, consider the possibility that somebody in your environment is aiming cruel thoughts or deeds in your direction. Be on your guard so that you are not taken unawares…… Every now and again this card comes up as a firm warning of danger…..

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Elements of the Psychic World
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Elements of the Psychic World: A box or confined space thought to attract, store and release spiritual forces, enabling a medium to produce phenomena. The use of cabinets to manifest paranormal activity began in the mid-1800s with the Davenport brothers. The brothers had themselves bound and locked in a wooden cabinet, where they were supposedly incapable of moving, but somehow musical instruments would play as if guided by spirit hands. Their act was a huge success, and until the early twentieth century cabinets or black curtains for the medium to retire behind were all the rage. Cabinets are rarely used by modern mediums.

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Creative Tarot: Noticing—paying attention—is the first step. Making those cards useful to you is the next step. I would pull the Nine of Swords and realize that I really had to figure out the source to my sleepless nights. What exactly was the root of the anxiety that would shake me awake at four in the morning? And what could be done about it? The Nine of Swords made me notice I could do something about this, not just suffer through it. I would pull the Three of Cups and notice how long it had been since I invited my female friends over for a dinner party, and then send out emails instantly.

Reversed Cards: When we walk into the world, we have to start from the beginning. We have to learn skills, social structures, rules, ideas and ways of being. Even movement needs to be learned. We wriggle, sit up, crawl, bend, and finally walk. Once we find our legs, the world needs to be relearned all over again. Learning to navigate the world once we find our legs is where the pages of the tarot come in. They are the beginning of the independent self, the self that has movement and the self that craves freedom. The pages show us what the first hooks of desire look like and how they can and do trap us. The pages teach us that freedom, independence, and identity come at a price and are not always easily maintained or given. The pages remind us that all of us, every single one of us, has to start somewhere. Even if we are upside down.

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Astrology Basics: These four elements exist in three modalities, namely Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable. These modalities further help assigning characteristics to the zodiac signs. Cardinal represents a personality of great force and action. Fixed modality represents a person with great willpower and an inability to be flexible. Mutable is someone who is resourceful and adaptive. These modalities are combined with the elements to describe someone who is born under a particular sign.