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Second Stack: The Present

Second three cards (the present):

Four of Swords
Nine of Swords
Warrior of Coins

Swords, swords, and more swords. Kinda telling I think. On the face of it looks like militarism, which kinda fits, but digging down might just say something different….

Four of Swords

Wang describes it as a rest from strife, Crowley pretty much agrees, and again Robinson is out there in left field with organization, dominion and overindulgence. But maybe she is onto something this time……

Simple reading of the card: Best I can come up with for this one is that this is a description of taking a breather before diving in or making plans for some violence.

Nine of Swords

Robinson speaks of overcoming indecision and making hard choices. Crowley speaks of what I consider upcoming nastiness, cruelty, malice, suffering, loss, dishonesty to mention a few. Wang agrees with Crowley.

Simple reading of the card: Bad shit coming

Warrior of Swords

Gonna quote Robinson directly this time:

There is a sense of manifest destiny in this warrior that insinuates strong commitment, but there is also an indication of detachment or separation, which might be necessary in order to apply alchemical separatio or sublimatio or the right discrimination in a given situation.

Crowley calls him the lord of winds and breezes, the King of the spirits of air. King of the Sylphides. Active, clever, fierce with a tendency to domineer with a healthy dollop of tyrannical and deceitful.

Wang is on the fence with this one, my take on it is that someone is going to come out swinging and it could go either way.

Simple reading of the card. Whew, could be quite the show.