Voron
Conflict = Defeat
When I was using the RWS for my daily drawings, this card came up one day. I basicallt but it out of my mind and got on with my day.
Much later, that evening, I got in this terrible verbal argument with one of my best friends. A "get out of my house" sort of argument. It was totally an argument based on a misinterpretation of something I said, and wasn't listening to my explanation and was being super-defensive and irrational. I felt like I was in the right, and was rather smug and indignant about it.
After the argument was over and I calmed down, I remembered the card. I nothing short of an epiphany concerning the true meaning of the card.
It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, but the conflict and ill-will is in itself defeat.
This is very different feel from the 5 of wands, which I see to be fierce
competition -- but it can be playful and good-natured (or cruel and vicious).
But the 5 of swords doesn't seem to have such a positive option. It seems this is an unavoidable win-or-lose situation, and a defeat for one person is a defeat for us all.
The clouds make the weather look ominous in the card -- like a storm is brewing; it is at least windy. Perhaps the scattered clouds are related to things being unclear -- the misperceptions at the heart of my particular experience. The differing points of view and inability for each party to see them that is at the heart of all arguments.
I've always seen him as picking up the swords -- probably because the two he's holding are stacked so neatly. Pehaps picking them up isn't a bad thing -- if they represent differing points of view. In that case, wouldn't leaving the discarded ones on the ground be a waste? Perhaps the goal is to value opposing viewpoints even after we've won an argument. Similar to the US Supreme Court's reading of the dissenting opinion.
When I was using the RWS for my daily drawings, this card came up one day. I basicallt but it out of my mind and got on with my day.
Much later, that evening, I got in this terrible verbal argument with one of my best friends. A "get out of my house" sort of argument. It was totally an argument based on a misinterpretation of something I said, and wasn't listening to my explanation and was being super-defensive and irrational. I felt like I was in the right, and was rather smug and indignant about it.
After the argument was over and I calmed down, I remembered the card. I nothing short of an epiphany concerning the true meaning of the card.
It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, but the conflict and ill-will is in itself defeat.
This is very different feel from the 5 of wands, which I see to be fierce
competition -- but it can be playful and good-natured (or cruel and vicious).
But the 5 of swords doesn't seem to have such a positive option. It seems this is an unavoidable win-or-lose situation, and a defeat for one person is a defeat for us all.
The clouds make the weather look ominous in the card -- like a storm is brewing; it is at least windy. Perhaps the scattered clouds are related to things being unclear -- the misperceptions at the heart of my particular experience. The differing points of view and inability for each party to see them that is at the heart of all arguments.
I've always seen him as picking up the swords -- probably because the two he's holding are stacked so neatly. Pehaps picking them up isn't a bad thing -- if they represent differing points of view. In that case, wouldn't leaving the discarded ones on the ground be a waste? Perhaps the goal is to value opposing viewpoints even after we've won an argument. Similar to the US Supreme Court's reading of the dissenting opinion.