Six of Swords: A Passage Away from Difficulties

Six of Swords by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law; Shadowscapes Tarot

​The Six of Swords grants us respite.  It represents a "passage away from difficulties", and "a chance to recover after tribulations".  Perhaps it also is showing us a higher perspective? When we look at our troubles from a soul's perspective they seem much less dire than our ego may tell us.

Maybe the white swan carrying us to a new perspective is the higher self rescuing us from the fears of the mind.  In the end it is always up to us to rescue ourselves.  It is our higher self that comes to the aid of our fear-ridden mind, when we allow ourselves to listen to the small, quiet voice of the noble swan.

"As his eyes drift shut, he feels the gentle hands that lift him onto the downy feathered back.  He feels the muscular tensing of wings, the flex of sinew and bone, and then a jolt as the swan springs into the sky.  His own limbs feel malleable, sapped and drained of will.  She carries him high, and he curls into a fetal embrace on her back.  He is content to let her bear him away.  The swan flies through the night.... As the dawn sends tentative fingers of light into the sky, he finally cracks open his eyes to see the swiftly passing landscape far below.  The land seems so distant.  It is hard to believe the anguish and the fears and the tribulation that such a miniature world can create.... The Six of Swords is a passage away from difficulties.  It is a chance to recover after tribulations. Too much change from a bewildering world has perhaps induced despondency that you must find a way to lift out of."  ~Barbara Moore, The Shadowscapes Companion