We are all living life with different struggles. We are all navigating life, and though we travel our own paths, we encounter the same themes and realities under different circumstances. A tarot deck is representative of the spectrum of the human experience. Each card in tarot has a traditional meaning and each deck the creator’s interpretation of that meaning. Kaila Wilde uses her knowledge and interpretation of the tarot as a personal growth tool and to create an affirmative statement + note to keep us lifted and to remind us that we are not alone.
Each week, take what you need. Leave what you don’t.
Card:
Three of Swords
Affirmation:
I honor my feelings without owning them.
Reflection:
Our emotional well-being is inextricably linked to our mental well-being.
The Three of Swords is often symbolic of sorrow and heartbreak. Depending on the severity, emotional pains can impact or begin to impact our ability to make rational and sound decisions. We have often been taught to guard our hearts because when we are emotionally distressed, it can start to take a toll on us mentally, physically, and spiritually. Specifically with our mental state, our ability to think clearly can be clouded during times of sorrow; However, recognizing this can prevent us from making decisions that we wouldn’t normally make. Try as we might to protect our hearts, life will life and inevitably we will experience an array of heartbreaks. We must be vulnerable with ourselves, with God, and with our support systems when emotional sorrow takes place. And when we are vulnerable in these ways, we open ourselves up to get whatever it is that we need in order to properly process and work through our emotional pains.
Acknowledging and working through our grief, our loss, and our sorrow is an unavoidable part of our journey; When we are not willing to do these things we find ourselves eventually self-inflicting the pain we feel because WE are holding on to the pain instead of releasing it. Honor your feelings and your pains - do not deny them, but also do not take ownership of them; We are not what we feel. We are the being inside who can acknowledge and can understand what we we feel. Emotional pains are feelings that we cannot escape while living life, but we always have the choice either to let them consume us or to let them come and pass on by. If we allow it, from heartbreak can emerge love like we’ve never experienced, joy like we’ve never possessed, and serenity like we’ve never known.
Application:
Change the way you talk about how you feel. I strive really hard not to say things like I am sad and instead say I feel sad, or I will say I feel lonely versus I am lonely. When we say we are (I am) something, we are owning whatever that something is. Stop fucking possessing pain. Again, let it come and let it go. Feel it and release it.
Tarot card from Minimalist Tarot by Katie Troisi