By Sarah Taylor
Interesting that even though we are meeting a new deck for the next five weeks of the Weekend Tarot Reading, we have a sense of something continuing in the presence of The Priestess, who was also at the centre of the reading two weeks ago using the Röhrig-Tarot. The Priestess as anchor to an experience that walks into your life on the heels of the Ten of Swords moment that came, or is emerging currently, into consciousness.
It’s transformation time now, though — or, rather, ‘transmutation’ time.
My sense is that you were brought face-to-face with a Ten of Swords matter in your life in order to clear it. It is the rearing of the monster’s head before it sinks beneath the ocean’s surface; and if you have used ‘right action’, it hasn’t disappeared out of consciousness only to resurface another time and in another form: it has become a part of the ocean itself. It has become a conscious part of you.
The Ten of Swords at its very best is a process of recognition, surrender to a process of healing, and the stripping away of a layer of belief that wounded more than it assisted, that held you back more than it eased your journey. Swords can either stand in your path, or they can clear it. It might be useful to ask yourself what, if anything, the Ten of Swords has meant for you, and whether you have been able to work with it in a way that furthers your own evolution.