When the 8 of Swords comes up in a reading, it usually means that your predicament is a product of your own making or imagination.You have confined yourself to the degree that you are unable to free yourself or even see a way out.In the Anna K version of this card, we see a woman looking at herself in a mirror but she is not seeing her true reflection, she is seeing something else entirely.Her mirrored self is blindfolded and wrapped up in a material that is in both her current world and her mirrored world.In the mirror, she is surrounded by swords with a small path in front of her while outside of the mirror she holds a sword in her hand.Since the swords represent thoughts, the mirrored self suggests that she surrounded by her thoughts, allowing them to confine her while the self on the outside of the mirror has more control of her thoughts since the sword is in her hand.Could it be that she seeing that she is doing it to herself?
In my last post, I described 5 practical steps for doing dreamwork. In this post, I want to give you a real life example of a dreamworking I did after writing the last post.
June’s shadow card is the 8 of Cups, shown here from the new Tarot Illuminati by Erik C. Dunne and Kim Huggens.Here we have a figure, cloaked in red, with his back to us walking away from 8 cups stacked behind him.Red is the color of passion indicating that this person is passionate about their pursuits.There are 5 cups on the left and 3 on the right and it appears as though the cups are empty but in truth we do not know if they are or if they have something in them.If they are full, perhaps he is leaving them behind because they no longer work for him, if they are empty he may be feeling that his life is empty and he is leaving them in search of fulfillment.He uses a cane to assist him as he walks in a wintry scene though a doorway between very large rocks towards what appears to be a stairway to the moon.
The 8 of Cups is about going on a quest in some form or another, walking away from a job, a relationship, a belief system, or any other situation, positive or negative, and is often about leaving something good in order to find something even better.Sometimes the quest is about finding yourself, of looking deep inside to discover those hidden things that you are finally ready to face.A quest can be about leaving the past behind you so you can move on to better things, or leaving behind emotions that no longer serve you.
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