{"id":595,"date":"2015-03-28T23:13:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T23:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inthecards\/?p=595"},"modified":"2015-03-28T23:13:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T23:13:05","slug":"the-page-of-swords-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inthecards\/2015\/03\/the-page-of-swords-again.html","title":{"rendered":"The Page of Swords: AGAIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I kept picking the same cards, the same cards I’ve been seeing lately. Page of Swords? AGAIN? I don’t wanna! But then came the revelation which I described in a YouTube video the other day. Detach in the sense of rising above it. Cutting through intense emotions. Letting go.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t even been posting on YouTube lately until yesterday I did a short video: Today’s Astrological Warning<\/a> \ud83d\ude09 and then I did one today as well. Little vids. To the point. What the moon was up to and then a card.<\/p>\n

And yesterday was a Page of Swords<\/strong> day. Today too.<\/p>\n

There was a time, about a year ago, or a bit more, when I kept seeing this card. Saturn is retrograde now<\/strong>, heading back to my third house of writing and communications and siblings and short trips (all the astrological houses have various associations) and today I did speak to my sister and am probably planning a trip and have put some new attention into old writing projects that I’d left behind. Saturn returns!<\/p>\n

Could it be that simple? Sometimes it is.<\/strong> Clarity. The Swords sometimes do refer to writing and communicating, speech, the voice, logical, rational thought, but also, often, conflict. They say the Page of Swords is defensive, wary. The spy. I felt some of that today too.<\/p>\n

Something I particularly like about this card, this version of the card, from Tarot of the Hidden Realm<\/strong>, is the way I can’t tell if our young Page is pulling out the sword or putting it back. Maybe it’s obvious to some, but I like the ambiguity. She looks almost sleepy here. Is the battle done?<\/p>\n

Now that I think about it, with the Moon in Cancer<\/strong> making all kinds of emotional aspects, it would be wise to put the sword down and away and listen to something higher<\/em> — inner voice, inner power, freedom from irritating people \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I imagined my emotional state was a radio station and I turned it off. Changed the station. That was my Page of Swords moment<\/strong>. One of them. Anything having to do with writing these past couple days I also consider Page of Swords moments. The uncomfortable part is\u2026 not feeling like the King of Swords, in charge, but young, a kid with hope, with something to lose.<\/p>\n

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I can’t end on such a somber note so I draw again. Eight of Pentacles<\/strong> and he doesn’t have that “tinkering” feel that I often feel when I see the Rider Waite card. This Eight is fierce with his tongs and hot coins, examining them, perhaps planning a revision for number nine.<\/p>\n

What to make of all this, the repeat images, the return to the past? I’m not entirely sure but I’m not going to draw again. I shall stop here. We want to believe we are going somewhere, step by step, some organization to the journey, and I do believe this and yet, sometimes the clues and keys don’t give us very much and we want answers.<\/p>\n

For some reason today though, and yesterday, I was fine with that. Fine.<\/p>\n

Wishing you good cards xx<\/p>\n

<\/em>PS New class is forming in April! Here are the details!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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