Catspur Posted November 11, 2018 Posted November 11, 2018 I've been struggling some lately with these two cards. I know the five is traditionally read as "defeat" - but it's interesting because the art in most cards really foregrounds the victory. (In my go-to deck, the victor looks sad about winning, rather than smug, but he's still clearly foregrounded). I'm curious - particularly for those who don't rely on keywords, how often are you reading that card from the perspective of the losers vs the winner in the foreground? I have similar issues with the 7. The risk of loss from theft, sure, but it can also be gaining via deception? How often do you read that as underhanded victory as opposed to losing because of perfidy? How do you determine which way to read it? In both cases, if you have specific examples of how you've read the cards, I'd be curious to hear them. Usually talking about specifics is more useful than being more abstract.
Guest Posted December 11, 2018 Posted December 11, 2018 I love both of them in the tabula mundi deck. The five of swords, because once in a reading, it was suggested that I stand up to bullying. And the seven of swords is like so removed from the noise of the thing desired, in that liminal space, im completely able to sink as deeply as possible into a relationship with the thing that supposedly isnt there, even though im carrying it inside me. Its like an isolation tank... though usually things dont work out... its about the journey, to me its still very romantic.
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