Six of Swords

Moving on to calmer waters.

What Six of Swords can mean for your day

In tradition, a ferryman takes two passengers across to a calmer shore. You're leaving something hard behind. Today, keep going; it tends to get easier.

Try: Do one thing that moves you forward from a tough time.

Where it sits in the deck

Tarot is a deck of 78 picture cards. 56 of them, like this one, are about everyday life. They come in four groups, called suits, a bit like playing cards.

Swords: thoughts, words and hard truths. In tradition, the suit of Air.

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