Swords · Air
Six of Swordsfor Cancer · Health and Energy
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A ferryman carrying passengers in his punt to the further shore. The course is smooth, and seeing that the freight is light. Swords represents knowledge and the six card represents harmony. Together the six of swords represents the end of a longstanding issue and the start of a more balanced life.
A journey (perhaps by or near water) offers you a calm break from a turbulent time. You are healing from old wounds. Romantically maybe you have truly moved on from an unhappy relationship (or rough patch) and can now start to heal. At work you might be wrapping up a hard project and having a bit of welcome slower time.
Your healing journey is blocked (perhaps you are standing still or perhaps you are moving too fast). Romantically, don't run into a new persons arms or cut yourself off from love completely. Walk with purpose, but allow yourself to take in the wonderful world around you.
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Six of Swords for Cancer in Health and Energy
The Nurturer
Swords are the air suit, so the Six of Swords sits in Libra. Libra squares Cancer, so the card asks for the move Cancer is least fluent in: write the sentence down and stop rewriting it. The friction is the content, not an obstacle to it. Upright, the recovery is underway with the loss still in the room.
When reading about health through a Cancer lens, the Six of Swords says that you feel like your body holds what you will not say out loud, rest feels like abandonment (or like you are letting people down), and you know something is wrong before any test confirms it. This has either made you chronically tense and dismissive of your own pain, or taught you to listen when your gut tells you to stop. The body has been sending the same signal for months and nobody has bothered to listen. The Cancer blind spot in it is being seen as a burden, or as someone whose needs are too much.
In practice that can look like anxiety with a real cause. Whatever form it takes, it is recovering, with the loss still in the room.
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