Ace of Swords

Keywords

Truth • Clarity • Intellect • Discernment • Honor • Integrity • New Perspective

Medicine

Tangled rope strands bind your brain's neurons.

  • The blade and I are one, an extension of my spine. As it slices through the air, so too does it slice through my thoughts. Mind and ego must be clear of fear, for every oncoming strike is only a mirror. Defeat originates in my own mind. I honor its wisdom, for it teaches me that true strength and honor lie in never having to draw it.

    Reflection

    What snarls your thoughts, but you won't unsheath your blade to cut through it?

Two of Swords

Keywords

Indecision • Intuition • Discernment • Perception • Balance • Inner Vision • Stillness

Medicine

Stillness reveals what struggle obscures.

  • In my path I am blinded by the light of perfection, but my intuition guides me and discernment allows my eyes to evolve, for thoughts can distract me. I must connect to the higher wisdom of Grandmother Moon. These blindfolds I originally thought were obstacles became a gift.

    Reflection

    What have you been blinded by to only realize it's keeping you from moving forward?

Three of Swords

Keywords

Heartbreak • Attachment • Grief • Compassion • Discernment • Release • Healing

Medicine

The blood from the thorn, the stories it reveals.

  • Blinded by the light of perfection, I held on to the rose too tightly, and its thorns cut to the center of the core of my wound. I participated in love, and now I bleed. It has become my catalyst for understanding the heartache of others. Without attachment, suffering would not have visited me. I must sever these cords that bind me.

    Reflection

    This blade cuts as I call my power back to me. Where is your power being siphoned onto others?

Four of Swords

Keywords

Rest • Community • Ceremony • Restoration • Reflection • Renewal • Sanctuary

Medicine

The embers dispel my illusions.

  • I come to the circle, for it reminds me of community, interconnectedness, and the circle of life. I sit with birth, growth, old age, death, and rebirth. The fire heals me. In stillness my eyes are worthy of the beauty of the cosmos above. The talking circle renews joy within my wounded heart. We lay our swords down and rejoice as one.

    Reflection

    Sit next to me around the fire. What will you leave behind in these ashes?

Five of Swords

Keywords

Transformation • Evolution • Heart Wisdom • Perspective • Inner Victory • Discernment • Wholeness

Medicine

From sharp edges to wholeness. Heart.

  • The heart has seen many battles, and this time it wins. What appears to be a puzzle is just another trick of the mind. The heart is saying to let go and go in. See me for all the love I am and continue to give. Feel me beyond your chest cavity. I exist beyond what you can perceive. I too was once confined by sharp edges, until love touched me and I evolved.

    Reflection

    How many times have you gone round and round on something weighing your heart, only to come back to it and find it transformed like magic?

Six of Swords

Keywords

Recovery • Movement • Healing • Transition • Unity • Trust • Progress

Medicine

Every heartbeat finds its current in calm waters.

  • As I move through these waters, gently striking the vessel, they rhythmically become a heartbeat. The weight I once carried no longer burdens me, but moves with me. All work in union toward a common waters. The journey is no longer mine alone. I am moving up the rivers leaving troubled waters.

    Reflection

    When looking into murky waters, don't become disillusioned. Even a lotus flower grows out of mud.

Seven of Swords

Keywords

Stealth • Patience • Silence • Intuition • Strategy • Observation • Timing

Medicine

Whispers speak the loudest secrets.

  • In flight, the swords become my wings, and under the cover of Mother Moon I have become the bird that few will ever notice. The winds whisper the messages I am to receive. Silence has become my ally, and patience my greatest teacher. Not every journey is meant to be seen. Not every truth is meant to be spoken. I reveal myself only when the moment calls my name.

    Reflection

    In the cover of the night, the thin veil reveals the message. How often have you been afraid to turn off the light?

Eight of Swords

Keywords

Limiting Beliefs • Overthinking • Self-Imposed Prison • Illusion • Wisdom • Liberation • Awareness

Medicine

My mind, a slave to silence unknown.

  • This chrysalis was born from limiting beliefs. Trapped by my own thoughts, overthinking, and negative self-talk, I projected the illusion of entrapment with the shackles of the swords below me, even though they do not truly exist. Grandmother Moon appeared to remind me of the wisdom I possess. Each ray is another thought. Doubt. Despair. “I can’t.”“I’ll never change.”“I’m not worthy.” They come and they go, but I am not them.

    Reflection

    How many times have you found yourself in a cage, only to realize there was never one there?

Nine of Swords

Keywords

Ceremony • Release • Nightmares • Purification • Spirit • Healing • Transformation

Medicine

Drumming into light.

  • This drum calls forth Spirit to clear what no longer belongs. Another nightmare leaves my body. Another sorrow is given back to Spirit. Another burden finds its way home. I call upon the great heavens above to guide me. Father Sun. Grandmother Moon. May we clear what is ready to emerge. Visions carried upon the winds.

    Reflection

    What part of yourself is waiting to be drummed into the night?

Ten of Swords

Keywords

Completion • Ceremony • Release • Transformation • Community • Wisdom • Offering

Medicine

In the darkness of the night, fire awakens me.

  • As we lay these swords upon the fire, you have come to witness my journey... the drumming... the sharing... the turmoil... the despair... the heartaches. I have shared them with you as I learned to use my tools. Every thought, every wound, every burden has found its way to this sacred fire. Nothing remains hidden. Nothing remains separate. Through these flames, what was ready to die has become wisdom.

    Reflection

    What are you offering to the fire within?

Page of Swords

Keywords

Initiation • Healing • Reverence • Temple • Purification • Threshold • Inner Journey

Medicine

My inner journey awakens.

  • Before entering this temple, I lay my sword at its threshold. It is my bridge into this sacred place. The glow you see is the release of the impurities I have carried within. They rise into the heavens above, returning to Spirit what no longer serves me.

    Reflection

    Looking within, have you taken care of your heart? Take that moment of silence to hold yourself tightly.

Knight of Swords

Keywords

Direction • Purpose • Balance • Mastery • Navigation • Courage • Momentum

Medicine

Darkness illuminates the light of absolute truth.

  • I cut through these waters with poise and grace. I feel the winds slice into my face. Silent, vast cosmos of the mind, project me forward. For eons I have traveled this void. My sword shatters the illusion of the night.

    Reflection

    What illusions of the night do your shadows guide you through the silent cosmos of your mind?

Queen of Swords

Keywords

Discernment • Truth • Perception • Clarity • Wisdom • Authenticity • Integrity

Medicine

Glacial flow. Borrowed tongues.

  • These piercing eyes—you cannot fool me with your crystalline rhetoric. Speak honestly, and you will discover that I have already heard what your heart has been whispering. Mercurial lines and velvety persuasions do not move me.

    Reflection

    When your borrowed tongue falls silent, who will speak for you?

King of Swords

Keywords

Mastery • Vision • Sovereignty • Discernment • Precision • Wisdom • Presence

Medicine

Intellect carving jagged path.

  • Phantom needles the eyes emit. They pierce beyond what is spoken, finding every shadow that hides behind the mask. I stand upon the shadow's edge with poise. Shearing currents in flight. The winds, like thoughts, shine like polished arcs.

    Reflection

    Echoed silver diving in the moonlight, has your reflection served you?