Swords · Air
Nine of Swordsfor Sagittarius · Health and Energy
"Anxiety isn't the question. What you do next is."
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One seated on her couch in lamentation, with the swords over her. She is as one who knows no sorrow which is like unto hers. It is a card of utter desolation. Swords represents thoughts and nine represents isolation. Together this card represents the doubts and fears that come with being alive and alone in the world. Obsessing over perceived flaws (or real mistakes) is not how you enact change in your life.
You are beset with worries and anxieties-- did you make the right choices, did you end a relationship with the love of your life, did you say the right thing to your boss, etc. These anxious thoughts are keeping you up at night and affecting your health. Reliving a situation over and over can give it more power over you. It feeds your anxiety. Acceptance of who you are (and what you did) are key
You are so overwhelmed with your anxieties it's hard to move through the world with any lightness. Perhaps a period of intense anxiety or melancholia. Fueled by shame, you feel something about the way you are is unlikeable. This is deeply untrue. Have faith that things will change and this intense feeling will pass. Ground yourself by spending time outside and be protective of yourself and your inner child. Seek support from friends, family or professionals as you do not have to bear these feelings by yourself.
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Nine of Swords for Sagittarius in Health and Energy
The Seeker
Swords are the air suit, so the Nine of Swords sits in Libra. Libra sextiles Sagittarius, which is help that has to be taken up rather than help that arrives. What it asks for is this: write the sentence down and stop rewriting it. Sagittarius is perfectly capable of that, which is exactly why not doing it needs a better excuse. Upright, it is nearly finished, and the last stretch of it is mostly solitary.
When reading about health through a Sagittarius lens, the Nine of Swords says that you feel like your body is a machine that gets you to the next place, something that will hold up if you do not think about it too hard, and less important than where you are trying to go. This has either meant you stay resilient and light or has meant you crash hard when the body finally stops cooperating. The body has been sending the same signal for months and nobody has bothered to listen. The Sagittarius blind spot in it is the specific weight of a single commitment, the slowness of actually building something, the possibility that it might not be enough.
In practice that can look like an answer from a doctor. Whatever form it takes, it is close to done and mostly solitary.
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