Cards 6 and 7 are at the top and bottom of the reading. 6 is the goal you are aiming for, and 7 is what will get you there. The Emperor appears as 6, the goal you are aiming for — stability, sureness, a foundation built from experience and held strong by wisdom. This is a goal that can be made possible by unifying the different parts of you in disagreement. And 7, the reversed Three of Swords, shows you what force needs to be embraced to unify those parts of you. This reading is shaped like an arrow, and this card represents the force that, when unreversed, will move past the blockage that the crossing card is causing and shoot the arrow forward to your goal. This card suggests some kind of pain or heartbreak, possibly something you thought to be already healed and moved on from. But there is something still that needs to be felt. The way forward here is to acknowledge those feelings and let them have the stage for a while. Trying to move out of the feelings too soon, to move into acceptance without fully acknowledging the pain and anxiety will only lead to feeling even more stuck. Urgency is not the way to the Emperor. He’s asking you to sit in the quiet.

I hope this resonated! If not feel free to let me know! There are other directions I could have taken with interpretation if something doesn’t sing

Having all court cards in these flanking spots with the 5 of wands as your crossing card suggests to me that these all represent aspects of yourself that are struggling to agree. The daughter of pentacles as your internal circumstances paired with the mother of wands as your external circumstances, I’m seeing a lack of confidence, avoidance, uncertainty in how to approach your goals. The energy of the daughter’s avoidance and over-caution may be holding the mother back from fully expressing her fire and forceful nature. And vice versa, the force of the mother’s fire may be startling the daughter into overcaution. All internal and external motion has been halted into a whirlpool of anxiety. Threading through both of these is card 5, the son/knight of swords, a relentless energy pushing up from below. He is the root of the reading, and he wants desperately to move forward with all his might and solve the problem. This eagerness to push through the stuckness may actually be making the stuckness worse! It’s like wriggling in quicksand — the more you move, the further and faster you sink. Though it may not feel like it, stillness is what is called for to move forward. Trying to push forward while the energies in you are still in disagreement is only making the disagreement worse.

Wow, the cards had a LOT to say to you! I just sort of pulled intuitively so let’s get into it! I’m going to have to post in parts
 Card 1, querent — 9 of Swords: This card represents you. This suggests you are having some anxiety that has festered to the point of constant worry. This reading will hopefully provide context on that worry. Card 2, what’s crossing or blocking you — 5 of Wands: this card represents the nature of your stuckness, which is internal conflict and a scattered mind. Your focus is everywhere and nowhere, you don’t know where to put your energy, constantly pulled between one idea and another, one feeling and another. When your energy isn’t focused, it can’t work together to achieve your goal. Cards 3, 4, and 5 are clarifiers digging deeper into the nature of your stuckness. Card 3 is your internal circumstances, the reversed daughter (page) of pentacles. Card 4 is your external circumstances, the reversed mother (queen) of wands. And card 5 is the underlying thread, the feeling in your heart that runs through everything, the son (knight) of swords.

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