Sword Three

[PathWalker]

The illustration show  a small bridge over a deep chasm crumbling away. The sword falls down over the edge too. The LWB talks about the card as it relates to the Arthurian tales, but after a long time of using the deck, here's one interpretation that has come to me recently.  I know it's personal and quite specific, but I think it can be useful to see what others ways we can 'read' a card. Other interpretations are very welcome.

 

SWORD THREE

The broken bridge. The unbridgeable gap. They can't come back! It's not about me exactly, except that I am on one side and some things I've been caught up on are on the other.  And it's no good waiting (here) because they won't be coming back - they can't!

I can stop waiting.

I can let go, and drop safely into the water, and glide away where it takes me. Because they won't be coming back so I don't have to try and stay here (on my side of the broken bridge) unchanged, waiting.

 

It's not that there hasn't been heartbreak, but that I can finally choose to let go. I can't turn the clock back, I can't change those others, I can't return and neither can they across the broken bridge.

I know that on another day, and to another situation the card may read differently, but this is one way of reading it for me.

Do chime in with your thoughts if you're a user of this pack

 

Blessings

PathWalker