different take on 3 of Swords
I just got the World Spirit deck and this card has been popping up in some personal readings I've done with it, to break the deck in.
I get something different from the card (definitely not heartbreak and sorrow!
).
The man is cringing from the map (letter?) on the wall, but I get the sense that someone (the person in the mirror around the corner) threw the knives to get the guy's attention...and he's cringing, like most of us would if someone suddenly threw knives at us, and out of nowhere at that.
I don't know if he's even focused on the map yet (and to me it looks like a map), I think he's just freaking out from the knives, especially if he thought he was in the house alone.
The person in the mirror seems to be hiding so that he can see the guy's reaction.
Some flashes that came to me about this card:
--"nailing it down"
--"driving it home"/"making a point" (3 knives to pin something to the wall is overkill)
--"not wanting to face the writing on the wall"
If we go with the thought that the item on the wall is a map, the man in the picture may have been resisting a certain path and those knives are making it blatant that he NEEDS to use that map to achieve his goals. Someone on AT used the analogy of a guy who wants to be rescued but doesn't want to leave his dog (it could have been for another card, but it fits here as well). I also think of the movie
The Perfect Storm and the man who was on that little boat in Bermuda with the two women. The storm got really bad and even after the women called a mayday and the Navy rescuers came to get them, the man refused to leave his boat because it was HIS boat and HE was the captain.
I like this card better than the traditional RWS bleeding heart with 3 swords stuck in it.
Just my $.02.
T.