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By Sarah Taylor
Two things are calling for your attention, your energy, your commitment. One of them feels settled, apparently undemanding — offered up as it is to you — and immediate; the other involves risk, hard work, careful nurturing, with no guarantees. It is time to use your heart.
This week’s reading is about what is manifesting in your physical world, and how you are reacting to that. In it, two Pentacles cards — the Knight and the Seven — sit either side of the Three of Swords, and instead of working with the cards in linear fashion, I feel compelled to start at the centre and move outwards to each flanking card, and then to move back from them to the centre. This is a process of moving away from intellectual analysis and into a place of intuitive enquiry; it isn’t the swords that I see as dominant in the Three of Swords, but the heart.
Your heart is the heart in the middle, feeling torn by options that seem to put you in a state of conflict with yourself: the sword on the left (the Knight of Pentacles) crosses the sword on the right (the Seven of Pentacles), and both are met by the sword in the centre — you in the midst of it all.
The Knight seems to be offering you something that simply requires you to reach out and accept it. Either that, or he is putting something on show for your perusal. It seems like a straightforward transaction, and it seems safe. But I am drawn to the armour of the Knight himself, and particularly the spur on the Knight’s heel. Why is he so heavily fortified? Does the offering come with a condition, or a price? More importantly for me: who does it really belong to? What is yours? What is someone else’s?