Tarot
Your Tarot Reading For The Week Of November 2 - 8
If you want to heal it, you have to feel it.
Nina Kahn
The introspective energy of the currently-overlapping Mercury retrograde and Venus retrograde has been hanging heavy in the air for the past couple weeks now. The collective themes of these two highly-influential backspins involve facing your shadow side, uncovering hidden fears or feelings, and digging deeper into the past to find the truth — even if that means opening up old wounds and dealing with emotional issues that you’d previously run from.
With Mercury reversing through radically honest Scorpio and Venus backspinning in justice-oriented Libra, there’s a huge emphasis right now on facing the facts, no matter how difficult or upsetting that may feel. The truth isn’t always pretty — usually if you’ve repressed something, it’s because it was too painful to accept or deal with directly at the time. With that in mind, it makes sense that this week’s tarot card is the Three of Swords.
The imagery on this card just about says it all. It depicts a red heart with three swords stabbed through it, and dark rain clouds storming in the background. This simple yet dramatic visua...