Ace of Swords

This week’s Tarot-Draw is the Ace of Swords.

Get to the point might be a good mantra for the week ahead.

I should stop there to drive said point home but I’ve grown accustomed to being Blabber McBlabbermouth the Chattiest of Cathies.

At least, I am when depression isn’t in the driver’s seat.

Despite the popular idiom - words can hurt worse than sticks and stones.

Especially if you’re the type of person that keeps hurting yourself by playing them over and over and over in your head.

Or if the words you choose breeds violence.

Which is another justification for treating the suit of swords as potentially unpleasant words.

Things unsaid, grievances, pettiness, and just plain ole’ assholery is in the air.

Be careful of your word choice this week if you can.

Everyone is pent up so try not to take what is said to you too personally.

At the very minimum try to be considerate when cutting a bitch down.

Stay classy and sassy.

Which is a big ask I know - to be mindful of speech habits when thoughts are already a jumble from trying to keep up with too much.

Usually I can only hold so much in conscious attention.

With so much of my attention scattered about, when I try to be careful with my words I end up sacrificing tone, timbre, or efficacy.

I guess I could shut up, my past says otherwise…

Why is it so scary when the words won’t come?

What do you do when you don’t have the words but are expected to explain the problem?

What if words were meaningless sounds attempting to mete out the ineffable?

It’s odd going thru a situation where reasoning no longer works. (i.e. Dealing with dementia.)

Talk about not taking what is said personally even though it hurts to the core…

In more normal circumstances the use of “because…” helps grease the conversational wheels.

What happened to giving others time to formulate their thoughts before expressing them?

There’s this teeny weeny window between not enough time to think up something coherent or intelligent sounding and taking too much time and forgetting the points you’d brainstormed up.

Hiding truth in humor is dancing along the sword’s edge.

Don’t be Damocles waiting on the sword to drop.

Why a simple image? Because, the span and scope of its message is complex.

Laurel and Palm encourage a cascade of high vibe thinkery, thinkation, and thinkalinking.

Victory and Resilience. Victorious and Holy.

Sparks of quintessence or Yod and the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate.

Bindu and the small and humble but quantitatively massive….

Just like a sparkle should be.

How many words does it take to get to the center of a point you were trying to make?

I say lots.

This week in Psychic Sleep we’ll touch on themes of: deliberate word choice; class; and sass.