58-Nine of Swords Reversed Rider Waite Work Tarot Reading

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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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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: What to do with tarot reversals is one of those topics that comes up a lot in tarot lessons, groups, and conferences, yet not a lot of people know what to do with an upside-down card. Which, to be honest, is fair enough because there really isn’t much in the way of literature about upside-down, topsy-turvy reversed cards. They get touched on very loosely in most tarot companion books, and there are only a handful of tarot books dedicated to reading the cards any other way but up. No wonder people are often left scratching their heads. Some people choose to ignore these cards altogether and just turn them right-side up. Some just start their readings all over again in the hopes that no upside-down cards will make their way into the reading or spread. It doesn’t help that hardly any decks are actually designed with reversals in mind. I should know—I searched high and low for cards that were designed to be read just as clearly upside down as they were upright.

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Elements of the Psychic World: Throughout history clairvoyance has been used and cultivated by prophets, fortune-tellers, witches, and seers of all kinds. Some were gifted naturally with clairvoyance while others learned how to develop it through training. In the 1830s the first scientific experiment to study clairvoyance was conducted on psychic Adele Maginot, and impressive results were achieved. Tests for clairvoyance of concealed cards began in the 1870s with French physiologist Charles Richet, and Richet’s work was taken further in the 1930s by American parapsychologist J B Rhine. Rhine developed a special deck of symbol cards to