The playing cards pictured are from Uusi’s ‘Pagan Otherworlds’ deck.

Ten of Swords and Ace of Wands

Every time we obtain a ten card it means we’re on the finish of our path, one thing has reached its restrict and we can not go any additional. In the case of the Ten of Swords, this can be a good factor as we have to launch and evolve.

With this card, we regularly discover ourselves saying the whole lot is okay when it’s not. We’re in ache and the world is in ache. We oscillate between feeling it deeply and never feeling it in any respect. We can not take all of it in without delay or will probably be an excessive amount of.

Now we have been distracting ourselves with no matter we’d like for the time being. The Ten of Swords tells us that it’s completely cheap and regular to make use of distraction to get by way of depth.

Many interpretations of the Ten of Swords communicate to how our constructive or destructive considering creates the circumstances in our lives. They may say for those who pull a card just like the Ten of Swords, that you must study your ideas and actions and see how your considering led to a destructive occasion.

It is a dangerous thought, that our means to mission the proper power is linked to the whole lot we do. I don’t subscribe to this perception. Our ideas don’t make unhealthy issues occur. Our ideas can affect how we really feel, however they don’t create destructive or constructive occasions.

This concept makes folks assume their lack of dedication to positivity makes one thing unhealthy happen. And that destructive occasions solely occur to those that don’t maintain a hopeful thoughts. Damaging issues occur to everybody, no matter their considering patterns.

Swords rule the thoughts and ideas are onerous to regulate, particularly after one thing difficult has occurred. However we will let each destructive and constructive considering exist on the similar time and permit them each to maneuver by way of us.

We will assume how unfair life is and let a meal with an in depth good friend assist us really feel the slightest bit higher.  We will acknowledge that issues are retched whereas additionally reaching out for assist from those that love us.

One other means of working with the power of the Ten of Swords is to let go of guilt for the issues we’ve got used to get by way of. No matter distraction or creature comforts we’ve got wanted is okay. To maneuver to the subsequent section, we might want to discover peace with our coping mechanisms.

Work in your compassion and acceptance of your self this week. Don’t drive your considering to be too constructive if that doesn’t really feel proper. Know that your ideas don’t create your circumstances. By self-compassion, you’ll discover your means.

Our second card this week is the Ace of Wands. It’s all about connecting to what makes us really feel motivated and impressed, particularly within the face of the heaviness of the Ten of Swords.

Wands are about objective, fireplace, and spirituality. As an Ace, it has all of the efficiency of the Wands in a single card. It calls us to connect with what makes us really feel energized. It’s the excellent card for the beginning of Sagittarius Season.

The Ace card challenges every of us to search for hope and positivity. It asks us to see the most effective in a scenario, even when our thoughts is considering the worst. This won’t change circumstances nevertheless it would possibly shift our feelings.

The Ace of Wands permits us to attach with the sunshine within our hearts and see the sunshine in others. We’re ready to connect with our true essence, the half that animates us and lives past our bodily kind.

We’re all doing the most effective we will at any given second. The extra caring we might be, the higher we’ll really feel, and the extra our core can come by way of and lightweight the way in which.

Use the Ace of Wands to amplify your kindness of spirit and hook up with your objective. Faucet into its power to search out your means by way of love and openness.

By the vibration of this card, we’re additionally known as to interrupt out of regular routines and do issues that remind us of our fireplace. Consider methods you may step out of your consolation zone or take constructive dangers. Do issues that make you are feeling alive.

Something that sparks your fireplace will assist you to hook up with the Ace of Wands. What brings out the fervour within you? What’s one thing all the time needed to do however worry stood in your means? What steps can you are taking to align together with your objective? How will you deliver extra kindness to the world?

These questions will assist us faucet into the Ace of Wand’s vibrations. Taking motion will assist us set a basis for pleasure and expansiveness.

Mantra for the week: I hook up with the fireplace within me. I let go of my want for management and embrace the unknown.

November 2023 can be my final month of readings for a bit as I’m taking a break for maternity depart. I’m wanting ahead to connecting once I return.