tarot card meanings · minor arcana · swords
six of swords — tarot card meaning
The ferried crossing; leaving troubled water with what could be saved.
reversed
The crossing refused; bailing the old boat instead.
two philosophical anchors, cited
Emigration of the mind · Seneca, Letters 28 · after Gummere
“You must change the mind, not the sky - and yet sometimes the crossing is the change.”
The raft is not the shore · Dhammapada (Majjhima spirit) · after Mueller
“The teaching is a raft for crossing over, not for clinging to.”
the question we would ask
What are you carrying in this boat that belongs to the shore you left?
how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.