Minor ArcanaSwords#9
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Nine of Swords
If you take the action you're considering now, you'll be sorry in the future
Light
- Refusing to worry about what you cannot control
- Rejecting anxiety
- Judging your own performance with kindness and gentleness
- Using meditation to quiet a troubled mind
- Confronting nightmares and fears
- Drawing a conclusion and putting an issue out of your mind
Shadow
- Torturing yourself with regrets
- Second-guessing your every move
- Beating yourself up for your mistakes
- Depression
- Obsessing on errors and overlooked details
- Refusing to handle stress in healthy ways
- Ruining your ability to appreciate the present by dwelling on the past
- Debating irreversible decisions
Mystical Correspondences
Numerology
9 (The Completion: fullness, readiness, ripeness)
Astrology
Mars in Gemini
Affirmation
"I do not worry about what I cannot control."
Questions to Ask
- 1.What role does worry play in your current situation?
- 2.To what other ends might you devote the energy you're giving to anxiety?
- 3.How can you know when it's time to stop thinking and start acting?
