Through the Mystic and the Ten of Swords, this week we’re being called to release old thought patterns that might block us from experiencing the sacred.
This interpretation of the X of Swords really speaks deeply to me. I pulled it in a major spread recently and I had what I thought was a solid interpretation (it came up in the position for my untapped potential), and not saying it wasn't solid, but you certainly expanded the scope of what I interpreted it as :)
Hi Alexis! 🤗 Thank you so much for saying that! I'd be interested to hear your interpretation of ten of swords in untapped potential. What a fascinating pairing that is! Without knowing the rest of the spread, it feels to me like maybe a call to stop trying so hard and rather let your natural abilities bubble up to the surface?
It was an interesting spread overall (I used the Strength spread from Labyrinthos). My interpretation was very tied to the imagery of the card in my deck (Mystical Manga Tarot) as it has a very moment frozen in time between the end of a battle and a new beginning vibe, and I had The Star for the Self-perception and X of Pentacles for the wisdom from my Higher Self so I took it about not letting the physical circumstances take over my overall outlook on the situation and let narratives from the past to influence what future I believe is possible
Hi Jenna, I’m sorry for being so absent in your comments recently, life dealt a card I had no idea what to do with. I know you know lovely… I know I don’t need to apologize, I needed to though… and now, these cards and your reading of their meaning have brought tears and gulps of relief…. At last.
It is only in the last few days that I have finally accepted the dreadful scene I found in my field that morning… it has been a heavy load to carry - both the physical and the emotional… I wait for the light of the mystical, for change, to step into the scared space even if for just one second of epiphanic understanding, I am ready now, I think…. And even more reassured by the ten of swords card that is telling of an end. The end of the story… the completion of change. Perhaps now I can move forward into the light and the new with less of a burden…
Susie, I am sending you so much love! I see all of your wise and well ancestors surrounding you and enveloping your whole hill with their light. They are holding you, and you don't need to hold it all anymore. You've been through something unimaginable. It's time for all your spirit helpers to shower you with joy and I'm telling them so.
Thank you Jenna. I love your interpretation of the Ten of Swords.
While I was reading this piece I literally felt a wave a calm energy wash over me. I welcomed it after having been through a few tough days. You were in the room giving me this message and it's filled with a loving, calm energy. I am being held.
Oh Donna, thank you, this really warms my heart. I'm so glad you felt me there with you and that you felt held! ❤️❤️❤️ I'm sorry to hear you've been through some tough days. I'm sending you so much love and support. Please reach out if I can do anything else to help.
WOW! This is so powerful. I feel a sigh of relief as I have been over analysing things lately...my mind trying to work out the logistics of something, and then this card...10 of Swords invites a deep deep DEEEEEEPPPP stillness. A total surrender, a letting go, a death of the mind chatter in order for the Mystic to hear the deeper answer, the more profound healing. Thank you.
Yes! That super deep stillness, which you wrote about so beautifully recently. I'm always amazed by how often the answers come when I surrender to stillness.
Oh, yes, I love that! Actually, I think the question is probably more important than the answer. The question is everything. The question brings with it the tension, the desire, that motivates all creation. It creates expansion and infinitude; there's always another question behind it. That being said, I definitely like answers too!
Jenna, I loved your exploration of the light and shadow of the mystic. So right on! In the light the mystic "allows themselves to be CHANGED by the mystical experience." It is a 10ofS encounter. At first a new awareness, an opening. But then a death or underworld experience that allows all that is in the way of this new information to fall away so an integration can happen. And the shadow side... I can't tell you how many times I have seen self proclaimed gurus pop up because of one mystical experience and now they have all the answers! The spiritual marketplace is full of them.
For myself, the 10ofS is key! I am very much into the Innana underworld travels right now. There is a death that happens. And a resurrection. An ending and a new beginning.
I've been thinking about you a lot lately. I keep pulling cards calling me to an underworld journey. And even the book I'm reading right now is all about that. I think I need to say yes to this before the universe forces it on me, but there's a little part of me that feels like the timing isn't quite right. Actually, just as I typed that I had an inner knowing that I need to begin my underworld ritual the first week of March. Can't wait to compare notes with you on our journeys!
Ooh Jenna, I feel like this is the perfect synchronicity for me this week. I have such a connection to spirit, but then will still question where I'm at and what it's all for! Allowing the unfolding is one of my biggest challenges, even when I see it and feel it. I felt a sigh of relief on reading this to know that everything is being taken out of my hands, so that I may experience the sacred fully. Thank you so much. x
Oh thank you, Louise! I felt that sigh of relief with you. To just let it all fall out of my tight fists feels so good. I wonder why I keep forgetting this and so often revert back to the clinging. It's funny being a human, isn't it?!
The word ‘sacred’ has come up several times for me over the past few days so I feel Spirit is whispering something to me that needs exploring so thank you for sharing this to help me delve deeper.
I also have a strange affinity to the 10 of Swords, for all its gore and glory!
Hi Kerry! 🤗 I often find it to be one of those mixed blessings when Spirit whispers to me like that. I love it, but it also usually means I'll have some kind of self work to do. (I could probably do with an attitude adjustment. Lol.) I love that you have an affinity for the 10 of swords! Gore and glory is such a perfect description. When it's time for the thing to die, just stab the frick out of it. 😂
I had a reading soon after my mother entered rehab. The ten of swords was the first card that came up. "This situation is completely, totally, and utterly done," it said to me. A week later the facility contacted me to advise me my mother would need to become a resident there. I agreed without hesitation and began to feel huge weights lifting off of my shoulders.
I don't remember the rest of that reading off the top of my head, but I could find it again.
Thank you for sharing this, Victoria. ❤️ The 10 of swords really feels like that. The fight's over, finished. I think when we can accept that, the spaciousness and relief comes, just as you experienced. I love that you let the card speak to you so clearly. I often struggle with continuing the fight long after it should've ended. I'll try to remember your beautiful example going forward.
I don't think spirit or source can be observed because it hasn't any qualities or form. We become it to know it, as who we really are. Circular, I guess. Is it even possible to completely know our mysterious being? So much energy is wasted in superficial pursuits. I see this in myself and others.
I love what you say here that we become it to know it. That feels so right, and beautiful! To me that's what a mystical experience is...merging with or collapsing into the sacred until there is no perceivable separation, until everything is sacred union.
Wow love the potency of this pairing. It feels so apt to some of the decisions I’m making around creative direction moving forward for myself. “It’s time to stop trying to figure it out.” I feel so called out by this 😂
Beautiful synthesis of these two. I like your attention to the stillness of the Ten, after the trouble of the mind's energy depleting the body's life force. That sure rings true. And right there on the very shore of mystery/water. Thank you for making this card a little less horrific! Oddball question: Can you tell what is the white bit on the arm facing us on the Ten of Swords? That puzzles me.
Hi Tara! 🤗 I'm so glad this card is a little more tolerable for you. So many of the images on the swords cards especially are downright frightening at first glance. But I really believe to my core that Divinity speaks through the cards and so the intent will always be helpful. Sometimes that means I have to sit with a card for a very long time, though. Lol. Always a process! I think the white bit is the guy's sleeve. It looks to me like he's wearing a tan-colored (probably leather) vest with a white shirt underneath and it's the sleeve from this shirt that we can see. Does that sound right?
This interpretation of the X of Swords really speaks deeply to me. I pulled it in a major spread recently and I had what I thought was a solid interpretation (it came up in the position for my untapped potential), and not saying it wasn't solid, but you certainly expanded the scope of what I interpreted it as :)
Hi Alexis! 🤗 Thank you so much for saying that! I'd be interested to hear your interpretation of ten of swords in untapped potential. What a fascinating pairing that is! Without knowing the rest of the spread, it feels to me like maybe a call to stop trying so hard and rather let your natural abilities bubble up to the surface?
It was an interesting spread overall (I used the Strength spread from Labyrinthos). My interpretation was very tied to the imagery of the card in my deck (Mystical Manga Tarot) as it has a very moment frozen in time between the end of a battle and a new beginning vibe, and I had The Star for the Self-perception and X of Pentacles for the wisdom from my Higher Self so I took it about not letting the physical circumstances take over my overall outlook on the situation and let narratives from the past to influence what future I believe is possible
Hi Jenna, I’m sorry for being so absent in your comments recently, life dealt a card I had no idea what to do with. I know you know lovely… I know I don’t need to apologize, I needed to though… and now, these cards and your reading of their meaning have brought tears and gulps of relief…. At last.
It is only in the last few days that I have finally accepted the dreadful scene I found in my field that morning… it has been a heavy load to carry - both the physical and the emotional… I wait for the light of the mystical, for change, to step into the scared space even if for just one second of epiphanic understanding, I am ready now, I think…. And even more reassured by the ten of swords card that is telling of an end. The end of the story… the completion of change. Perhaps now I can move forward into the light and the new with less of a burden…
Thank you so so much for this 🙏🏽♥️✨xx
Susie, I am sending you so much love! I see all of your wise and well ancestors surrounding you and enveloping your whole hill with their light. They are holding you, and you don't need to hold it all anymore. You've been through something unimaginable. It's time for all your spirit helpers to shower you with joy and I'm telling them so.
I can feel their embrace Jenna, and your love - thank you 🙏🏽 ♥️xx
Thank you Jenna. I love your interpretation of the Ten of Swords.
While I was reading this piece I literally felt a wave a calm energy wash over me. I welcomed it after having been through a few tough days. You were in the room giving me this message and it's filled with a loving, calm energy. I am being held.
I am very grateful for this.
Oh Donna, thank you, this really warms my heart. I'm so glad you felt me there with you and that you felt held! ❤️❤️❤️ I'm sorry to hear you've been through some tough days. I'm sending you so much love and support. Please reach out if I can do anything else to help.
WOW! This is so powerful. I feel a sigh of relief as I have been over analysing things lately...my mind trying to work out the logistics of something, and then this card...10 of Swords invites a deep deep DEEEEEEPPPP stillness. A total surrender, a letting go, a death of the mind chatter in order for the Mystic to hear the deeper answer, the more profound healing. Thank you.
Yes! That super deep stillness, which you wrote about so beautifully recently. I'm always amazed by how often the answers come when I surrender to stillness.
Yes...to be still is to really HEAR, FEEL, BE in the QUESTION and the ANSWER...
What are your thoughts on the Question being just as important as the Answer? xxx
Oh, yes, I love that! Actually, I think the question is probably more important than the answer. The question is everything. The question brings with it the tension, the desire, that motivates all creation. It creates expansion and infinitude; there's always another question behind it. That being said, I definitely like answers too!
Jenna, I loved your exploration of the light and shadow of the mystic. So right on! In the light the mystic "allows themselves to be CHANGED by the mystical experience." It is a 10ofS encounter. At first a new awareness, an opening. But then a death or underworld experience that allows all that is in the way of this new information to fall away so an integration can happen. And the shadow side... I can't tell you how many times I have seen self proclaimed gurus pop up because of one mystical experience and now they have all the answers! The spiritual marketplace is full of them.
For myself, the 10ofS is key! I am very much into the Innana underworld travels right now. There is a death that happens. And a resurrection. An ending and a new beginning.
I've been thinking about you a lot lately. I keep pulling cards calling me to an underworld journey. And even the book I'm reading right now is all about that. I think I need to say yes to this before the universe forces it on me, but there's a little part of me that feels like the timing isn't quite right. Actually, just as I typed that I had an inner knowing that I need to begin my underworld ritual the first week of March. Can't wait to compare notes with you on our journeys!
Ooh Jenna, I feel like this is the perfect synchronicity for me this week. I have such a connection to spirit, but then will still question where I'm at and what it's all for! Allowing the unfolding is one of my biggest challenges, even when I see it and feel it. I felt a sigh of relief on reading this to know that everything is being taken out of my hands, so that I may experience the sacred fully. Thank you so much. x
Oh thank you, Louise! I felt that sigh of relief with you. To just let it all fall out of my tight fists feels so good. I wonder why I keep forgetting this and so often revert back to the clinging. It's funny being a human, isn't it?!
This really does feel like a perfect pairing✨
The word ‘sacred’ has come up several times for me over the past few days so I feel Spirit is whispering something to me that needs exploring so thank you for sharing this to help me delve deeper.
I also have a strange affinity to the 10 of Swords, for all its gore and glory!
Hi Kerry! 🤗 I often find it to be one of those mixed blessings when Spirit whispers to me like that. I love it, but it also usually means I'll have some kind of self work to do. (I could probably do with an attitude adjustment. Lol.) I love that you have an affinity for the 10 of swords! Gore and glory is such a perfect description. When it's time for the thing to die, just stab the frick out of it. 😂
I had a reading soon after my mother entered rehab. The ten of swords was the first card that came up. "This situation is completely, totally, and utterly done," it said to me. A week later the facility contacted me to advise me my mother would need to become a resident there. I agreed without hesitation and began to feel huge weights lifting off of my shoulders.
I don't remember the rest of that reading off the top of my head, but I could find it again.
Thank you for sharing this, Victoria. ❤️ The 10 of swords really feels like that. The fight's over, finished. I think when we can accept that, the spaciousness and relief comes, just as you experienced. I love that you let the card speak to you so clearly. I often struggle with continuing the fight long after it should've ended. I'll try to remember your beautiful example going forward.
I just pulled this card for another during a reading with the exact same interpretation!
Yay! I love this synchronicity! ❤️🤗❤️🤗
I don't think spirit or source can be observed because it hasn't any qualities or form. We become it to know it, as who we really are. Circular, I guess. Is it even possible to completely know our mysterious being? So much energy is wasted in superficial pursuits. I see this in myself and others.
I love what you say here that we become it to know it. That feels so right, and beautiful! To me that's what a mystical experience is...merging with or collapsing into the sacred until there is no perceivable separation, until everything is sacred union.
Wow love the potency of this pairing. It feels so apt to some of the decisions I’m making around creative direction moving forward for myself. “It’s time to stop trying to figure it out.” I feel so called out by this 😂
Oh gosh, me too! I felt like the whole message was super personal. Stop overthinking, Jenna! I should probably get that tattooed somewhere. 😂
Beautiful synthesis of these two. I like your attention to the stillness of the Ten, after the trouble of the mind's energy depleting the body's life force. That sure rings true. And right there on the very shore of mystery/water. Thank you for making this card a little less horrific! Oddball question: Can you tell what is the white bit on the arm facing us on the Ten of Swords? That puzzles me.
Hi Tara! 🤗 I'm so glad this card is a little more tolerable for you. So many of the images on the swords cards especially are downright frightening at first glance. But I really believe to my core that Divinity speaks through the cards and so the intent will always be helpful. Sometimes that means I have to sit with a card for a very long time, though. Lol. Always a process! I think the white bit is the guy's sleeve. It looks to me like he's wearing a tan-colored (probably leather) vest with a white shirt underneath and it's the sleeve from this shirt that we can see. Does that sound right?
Oh yes, I see the tan vest and white sleeve. That makes sense. Thank you. 😊