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.
The Fool
UPRIGHT
Potential, beginnings, innocence, spontaneity
You are ready for changes. The Fool card is associated with new beginnings. Just like the young man, you are at the start of your journey and about to take your first step into the unknown. There is innocence energy in this card, and it shows that the changes ahead has a risk element or you are not sure about your decision. However, it might be correct time for a crazy leap of faith, even though it seems dangerous to you.
The Fool encourages you to leave your comfort zone behind and look for the new opportunities with a curious mind and excitement. Be ready to embrace the unknown and leave your worry and anxiety behind. It is time for new experiences and major changes in your life.
You don’t need anyone or anything to give you a direction. If you were searching for a sign, this is it!! Fool leaves behind his personal belongings and steps into unknown. Now it is time for you to do the same!
The Fool’s journey is full of potential and anything can happen. If you have self-doubt in this stage of your life, The Fool is your guide. Listen to your playful soul and let them guide you to unknown, trust that the Universe will support you and stay open for the surprises.
REVERSED
Recklessness, naive, close minded
The Fool reversed is urging you to check your viewpoint about your limits.
In the one hand, you may be limiting yourself, by thinking that you have not enough potential and skills to take a risk. Something is holding you back from moving forward. You are deceiving yourself by thinking that you already know the outcome and it is not worth to take any action and save this opportunity to yourself for now.
However, even if you don’t know what will happen next you can take this step forward and see what will come next. You can’t plan everything because Universe is full of unknown.
On the other hand, you may be acting recklessly and forgetting your past experiences. The Fool reversed may be suggesting you to act more carefully. You may love new adventures so much that, you are putting both yourself and others at risk. Try to look at the bigger picture and find a way to dive deeper to what you already have without loosing your playful energy.
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.