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This is tarot, a different tradition from astrology. The card is drawn at random: nothing in the sky chooses it. It is a prompt for reflection and it predicts nothing.

How tarot is handled here

5Five ofSwordsSWORDS
Tarot cardMinor Arcana · Swords

Traditionally read as a hollow win: a conflict settled in one party’s favour at a cost to everyone. It is associated with pride, with defeat and with the question of whether winning was worth it.

  • conflict
  • pride
  • cost
A question to sit withWhat did I win, and what did it cost?

Reversed

What the tradition associates with this card when it falls the other way up.

Reversed, traditionally read as a quarrel that people are trying to end. It is associated with reconciliation, with making amends, and with resentment that lingers after everyone has stopped arguing.

  • reconciliation
  • amends
  • lingering resentment
A question to sit withWhat would I need to let go of for this to be properly over?

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