Below is an excerpt from the Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: The King of Swords The primary principle in this card is mental strength. Skilled sword smiths forge their blades with a mastery that requires years of diligent practice. Your mind, too, requires a lifetime of stimulation and expansion to ensure its precise lucidity. The King of Swords card indicates an astute mental mastery, therefore a sharp sense of self. This card facing left or inverted suggests a

Below is an excerpt from the Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: Queen of Swords The Queen of Swords presents herself to you with radiant wit and charm. She represents a cunning, clever intellect about you that points to the creative power and authority you’re capable of having in certain spheres. Inverted, this card can indicate an overindulgently sharp tongue that needs softening (as to not make enemies who will prevent your personal growth). Upright, the card spea

Below is an excerpt from the Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: Knight of Swords An inspiring, attractive guide has galloped into a position of considerable power in your life. They are untempered, unabashedly charming, and quick to make you think. But the Knight of Swords comes upon you with the power of a storm. This intense presence can certainly reinvigorate the sureness of your willpower, but can also serve as a warning to avoid letting your weaknesses lead you

Below is an excerpt from the Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: The Page of Swords The tongue is a sacred organ. The quick one often gets tangled. The ready tongue, ridiculed for its riled blabber. The sharp tongue is the only edged tool that never dulls. It’s an alert conduit of what suddenly enters the mind. A pleasuring muscle. It is framed for articulation. The source of syllabic synthesis. The Page of Swords speaks about the vigilance required to our words

Below is an excerpt from the Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: Ten of Swords You have heaved your heavy burden to a high place but the steep ascent to the mountain’s peak still faces you. Your exhaustion breeds doubt and you question the worth of your own journey, but —there is hope to climb from the lower self into a higher sense of being. Only one aspect of you is weary, hampered; your strong spirit stands free and ready to rise. In relation to the direction of t

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Below is an excerpt from the Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: Eight of Swords: The Eight of Swords upright highlights feelings of self-imprisonment, worry, and mental isolation. You may not be able to see the danger surrounding present situation, and the blindfold must be removed to transform muddled thinking into clarified awareness. This card pulled in reversed invites the querent to release concern of these things, and to open up to others and the healing power

Excerpt from Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: Seven of Swords The querent is severed by treachery. Understanding, with precise logic, what has occurred in the past to induce the present set of circumstances is imperative for spiritual survival. You may feel on the verge of defeat; your power may be lost to a sour source of guile or deceit. But stitching the self together again is possible when errors in judgement and mistakes are recognized, then mended with circu

Excerpt from Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: Six of Swords The Six of Swords thrusts you swiftly down an unrestricted course. You know that in order to proceed forward, you must leave something important or some part of yourself behind. This is a time to strongly navigate the intense turmoil, to pull through and beyond the sadness of detachment. Your rite of passage is a good omen, querent, and soon the sense of loss will be replaced by a renewed acceptance of ch

Excerpt from Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: Five of Swords You may find yourself the loser in a dire battle over something sacred to you, but you remain innocent unlike your adversary, who is crippled by unjust rage. Defeat must be accepted. With a time of recovery devoted to introspection, perhaps you will realize why things happened the way they did. Your task now is to retrieve the mind’s weapon and heal your fierce heart, for fighting the outcome will only r