The Lenormand spread in the top row is letting you know what you may expect for the week ahead. The forecast: Either you or a loved one may reveal a truth that helps your relationship to grow. When we think of secrets we tend to think of lies and betrayal, however, those aren’t the only secrets people keep. Sometimes we keep our true feelings to ourselves and choose not to share them with the ones we love the most out of fear that we may hurt their feelings. But at what cost? When we deny our truth to save face we can do more harm than good. We suffer the discomfort of keeping our feelings bottled up and at the same time, we may grow resentful towards those closest to us because they unwittingly continue to do those things we despise.
Maybe you like your toilet paper roll to be loaded with the end facing up. Your spouse always loads it with the end underneath. In the twenty years you’ve been together you have never mentioned this, but every time you see the toilet paper loaded the “wrong” way you silently seeth and curse the day you married this barbarian. You finally can’t take it anymore and wonder aloud why his mother didn’t just terminate the pregnancy, thus saving you the heartache. Now your marriage is irrevocably damaged and the two of you are headed to divorce court. All because you chose to keep your preference for loading toilet paper a secret.
The Three of Swords is here to remind us that those feelings that we have been denying may in fact be difficult to discuss. There’s a reason we have kept our feelings hidden, but now is the time to release that fear (Friday’s full moon is the perfect time to do this)! Those truths we have tried to bury are the swords piercing our hearts. It’s going to hurt like hell, but the time has come to pull them out. That is the only way we can begin to heal.
If you are willing to accept the challenge that the three of swords is offering you will grow. Like The Tree, you will grow healthy and strong by pruning away that which no longer serves you. Are you ready? If so, start small to gain practice, building up to that “big” discussion. Don’t just scrape the onions off when you specifically asked for none. Politely ask for your order to be made again. Conversations in our head are almost always much worse than they are when we finally have them in real life. Don’t let fear keep you from getting everything you deserve! Go ahead and ask you boss for a raise! Let your girlfriend know that you haven’t proposed because you don’t want to lose her in a bitter divorce over toilet paper. Step into your truth and grow.
Love, Light, & Peace,
Crystal