Readings
Two Cards
If you are trying to make a very important decision in your life and you don’t know which path to follow, if you are really doubtful about the consequences the crossroads tarot spread will help you to find your way.
Ten of Swords
Upright
Painful endings, deep wounds, betrayal, loss, crisis
The Ten of Swords indicates an unpleasant yet necessary ending. For example, a relationship may get to an unexpected end, your job may be ended. It is as if this conclusion has come out of the sudden and shook your world. You could have never assumed it, but now it has arrived, leaving you thinking as if the world has crashed around you. You are suffering the pain of this unexpected end.
When the Ten of Swords shows up, you may be the victim of another person’s betrayal or dishonesty. You may feel as they stabbed you in the back. The pain is deep not because their behavior is painful, but because this indicates the end of your connection with them.
Even if you have been hurt or deceived, you now have a choice to pick yourself up and move forward with your life, rather than hoping someone will take compassion on you.
Therefore, the Ten of Swords is admitting your current condition. You no longer hold change but let it happen, even if it creates pain. You understand that there must be a difference to help restoration, and you allow it to occur.
The good message is that the Ten of Swords indicates the final difficulty – no more sadness will happen to you from that source. You must feel the full meaning of what has happened before you can move ahead and start again.
Pick yourself up and think about what occurred to you, and what you can acquire from the event. When you do this, the pain will fade, and you will shortly see why all of this required to occur so that you can develop into your whole potential.
Reversed
Recovery, regeneration, resisting an inevitable end
The reversed Ten of Swords shows that you are fighting an undeniable transformation or ending because you are not able to face up to what is occurring. However, the more you hold, the more this situation will continue to hurt you, so it’s time to get this over with so you can start again. Believe that everything is appearing for a purpose.
The reversed Ten of Swords urges you to review and free any perspective of your life that is not helping you. Rather than staying on your hurtful past, it is necessary to look forward and realize how these issues free you up.
Finally, the reversed Ten of Swords can show up as a pleasing sign that the pain and sorrow you have been experiencing is stopping. When this card is upside-down, the swords look to be falling, liberating him of the pain. You are clearing the memories of the past and letting yourself the chance to move forward with hope for the future.
Page of Cups
Upright
Creative opportunities, intuitive messages, curiosity, possibility
The Page of Cups implies a new idea or possibility has come to you. Your artistic energy is running, and now the problem is how you will show it. Will you take this idea and turn it into reality, or will you let someone else bring it to fulfillment? Explore the idea to see if you want to move ahead.
The Page of Cups calls you to have an open mind. Be ready to anything – even a fish jumping out of a cup! It is with an interesting mind that you will discover new perspectives on life. Be open to all probabilities, particularly those of a creative nature, you will be very astonished.
As each Page card invites you to discover a new aspect of yourself, the Page of Cups is inviting you to explore your emotional character. Dreamy ideas rush through your consciousness, and you may find yourself affected by simplistic things. Don’t be hesitant to let your feelings flow.
This card often arises when you are being invited to trust your inspiration and be open to the crowd of instinctive information coming to you. They may come from amazing places, or they may not even make sense to your logical mind; be open to the possibility and ready to explore new perspectives of yourself.
In a rational understanding, the Page of Cups can symbolize that you will get a nice surprise. The Page cards are often identified as the messengers, and with the Page of Cups, you may obtain a message about the emotions, feeling, or imaginative endeavors. It might be a new love affair or a new job offer. It is not a surprise you can expect or make; be ready to accept when the time comes.
Reversed
New ideas, doubting intuition, creative blocks, emotional immaturity
The reversed Page of Cups implies that you are keeping your creative ideas secret. You may bother that others will steal your idea or tell you it’s going to fail. You are keeping your plans private instead, so you can develop them more without the influence of other people.
With the reversed Page of Cups, you may feel invited to attempt a new plan, but you wonder whether you can really get it to work. Your internal critic may be on over-drive or people around you are telling you that you’re daydreaming – so you are postponing and holding back. Listen to your heart whether it’s time to just do it regardless of the consequence.
If you are exploring your inspiration, the reversed Page of Cups can hint that you are facing a lot of uncertainty. You are trying carefully to listen to your inner voice, but when the messages come within, you are left questioning if it’s your intuitive guidance or your mind.
Sometimes, the reversed Page of Cups can display someone who is emotionally naive – perhaps overly dramatic, who over-shares and is very vulnerable. This may be someone who is likely to emotional outbursts when they do not get their direction. Or it may be someone who is overly romantic about their future and who is not grounded in truth. It may be ‘Peter Pan Syndrome’, in which a grown-up acts like a child for the rest of their lives.