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By Sarah Taylor
Most Sundays after I’ve laid out the cards for the Weekend Tarot Reading, I step away from them for a while to give them room to come to life, communicate and interrelate with each other, and weave their narrative.
Today, when I stepped back, something slightly different happened: The cards seemed to want to talk to me, taking it in turns to give me their perspective on what they represent and where they fit in. Another point to add here is that this is not a ‘left-to-right’ reading, nor does it work on a time-line. Rather, it expresses ideas that are simultaneous, although there seems to be a hierarchy — an evolution — to these expressions in terms of what we can aim for in our own lives right now.
So I’m going to give each their own airtime to hear what they have to say, starting with the Two of Swords, then the Knight of Cups, and finally the Queen of Pentacles.
Two of Swords
“I sit here, unseeing, my mind focused behind my blindfold. My thoughts are what I depend upon. My hands, each holding a sword, are crossed over my heart, letting nothing in and nothing out; the waters behind me seem still and deep, but I sit here, apart from them — a human rock in an ocean of concrete.
“What I do, I do well: I am impartial, and I favour alliance over conflict. I am in balance. But I cannot hold this position for long: The swords are heavy, and it takes considerable effort to keep them in place. Nor can I see. My decisions are based on something in the past that I keep to, that I remember and envision. I cannot judge based on present or future circumstances. If I were to remove my blindfold, what would I see? Then again, even if I did remove my blindfold, what lies around me might be so veiled by a crescent-Moon-night that, no matter how hard I tried to focus, I wouldn’t be able to see the full picture. Perhaps it is better that I don’t. If I did, then what would have to change?