The concept of right and wrong is artificial, and often exploited by religious and political institutions. When you believe you’re right, you feel good about yourself and when you believe you’re wrong, you feel guilty and defensive. If you removed these judgments and simply reflected on your beliefs and actions, you would learn so much more about who you are. Then, rather from the moral pulpit of condemnation, you would create the person you want to be. You could relinquish yourself from the fear of not being good enough to embrace the person you are – light and dark. Look around and notice what you are unintentionally creating. Are you operating from fear or confidence? Take a risk this year by living the life you truly desire not the half-life you feel trapped in. There’s an amazing world out there waiting for your contribution."
"Magician
- Using personal skills and talents to create a desired result.
- Initiating new goals and endeavors.
- Synchronicity.
- Self- awareness and focus on personal growth."
- "Bondage through fear of decision because the consequences of either choice do not want to be confronted.
- Waiting to be rescued. Loss of power due to inner turmoil or depression.
- Danger of getting stuck in old convictions, ideas, or self-denial.
- The fear of fear is causing impotence instead of action."
"When you have put yourself in a bind from which there seems no escape, when you are lonely and might only have yourself to blame, when you adamantly refuse to take any responsibility for a bad situation … you are drawing the Eight of Swords in a Tarot Reading. This is a card that demands you investigate your status as a victim and acknowledge your own role in any possible downfalls that may be occurring around you.
A woman in a flowing robe is blindfolded and her torso bound. She is standing, not tied to anything and not tied up by anyone. Behind her off in the distance is a castle on a hill. At her feet are murky puddles of water in the mud. There are 8 swords behind her, buried with their points in the ground. The desolate landscape is under a dreary and cloudless gray sky.
Swords represent words. A sword that is buried represents words that dug deep. The gloomy nature of the scene depicted on the Eight of Swords Tarot card underscores that a long period of criticism has caused a person to turn into an withdrawn, stuck being. Be it harsh words that were lessons from your past or more recent verbal exchanges in your professional world or love relationship, the ideas expressed have caused you to shut down.
There is nobody around the tied-up victim, she has her shoes on and could begin walking away from all those swords. There is nobody stopping her from slowly removing that which binds and blinds her. But at the present, she stands amidst the swords. A closer contemplation could make one wonder how much of the negative criticism that they represent she has begun to believe about herself."
"In the past position of a Tarot Reading, the Eight of Swords indicates that you have been trapped in a hurtful relationship. Perhaps it was in your childhood or prior to a recent breakup. The Eight of Swords is weak here, it is never a card to serve as the foundation of the reading. The lasting effect of the card may be as minimal as low self-esteem, but could also point out that unresolved issues from childhood are creating a self-destructive response to your current situation.
When the Eight of Swords is dealt out into the present position during your Tarot reading, it is at its strongest. This is a card that is confronting you with the stagnant aspects of your current situation. Often, Tarot readers will tell a person receiving this card during a reading that the Eight of Swords in the present position represents denial. Oftentimes, the querent will then deny that there is any of that behavior going on. The Eight of Swords in the Present position lets you know that you may not be the person who put the blindfold around your eyes, but you are the person keeping it on."
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