Minor ArcanaSwords#8
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Eight of Swords
Get over playing the victim
Once you realize you are your own biggest obstacle, nothing can hold you back
Light
- Honoring limits
- Respecting the rules
- Deciding to go on a diet for your health's sake
- Recognizing you cannot always be in control
- Identifying obstacles to further progress
- Refusing to think about unhealthy or unethical options
- Asking for assistance
Shadow
- Feeling trapped
- Being lost in a maze of rules and regulations
- Giving in to despair
- Playing the victim
- Allowing others to dictate what you can and cannot do
- Being rendered helpless
- Having very few options
- Failing to look for a way out
Mystical Correspondences
Numerology
8 (The Action: movement, outer work, swiftness)
Astrology
Jupiter in Gemini
Affirmation
"I know my own limits."
Questions to Ask
- 1.Who's empowered to cut through the red tape?
- 2.What, exactly, are the obstacles? What resources, exactly, are needed to move them?
- 3.To what extent is your powerlessness a matter of attitude?
