My daily card today flummoxed me.  It was the Nine of Swords.  This is the card that, most literally translated, indicates the subject is worrying to the point of making him or herself sick.  Guilt or anguish can also be indicated.

If you know me, you know this just isn’t how I roll.  Not that I don’t have troubles. I do.  I just don’t spend a lot of time focusing on them.  I’m more likely to set my sights on solutions. 

Guilt? Yeah, there are a couple of things niggling my conscience. Mostly to do with friends I feel I’ve taken advantage of, especially because I’m not in a position to make it up to them. But I’ve contacted these friends and they have assured me that the elephant is in MY room, not theirs.

No recent occurrences have occasioned anguish, either. 

So, after honestly assessing that the card needed further illumination, I drew a second, clarifying card.   And it was…The Three of Cups.  

In Tarot, the Nine of Swords and the Three of Cups are the classic opposing cards.  The first card usually shows someone lying in bed, bound down by the weight of their worries. The second card traditionally has three figures drinking and dancing like nobody’s looking.

I like to boil down my Tarot combinations to the simplest possible phrase.  So, before I knew what I was doing to myself, I wrote down “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.”

Oh, nooooo……..