The King of Swords demands that you focus. He is staring at you from the Cosmos, eye sharp as a blade, cutting your distraction at the core. What can you slough off, leave behind, or hide away so you can do what you intend to do? How can you communicate these needs to the people in your life? This king wills you to do it already. Time may not exist, but it is always of the essence. Focus is a skill, sharpened over time by force of will. Life is a grand and distracting adventu

Excerpt from Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: XXI. The World You have come full circle, and the world stretches itself out before you. Facing you, this card symbolizes a completion or fulfillment, a breath at the end of long journey. The hardships and ache you’ve endured have made you stronger, intimately in touch with the inner-self, and you are boldly in the right place to achieve what you’ve envisioned to be the next voyage of your life. From this point of vis

Excerpt from Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: XX. Judgement When this Major Arcana card appears, you have reached a deep understanding with and inside yourself. A new phase of life is coming to fruition following decisions made and conclusions to questions at hand. You knowingly near the next step for yourself, as you have risen from a cloudy coffin of uncertainty into a bright balance of morale within. If reversed, be weary of indulging in doubt and self-judgmen

Excerpt from Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: XIX: The Sun This joyous card is a gift from the Universal Spirit. It is the freedom of increased esteem and renewed vitality. All present brightness glows because of hard work that is behind you. Your mind is sharp and lustrous with purposeful direction; your heart, aware and strongly receptive. Inside, the sunflowers are in bloom. Now’s a time to be happy like you are when you turn to face the sun and simply feel t

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Excerpt from Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: XVII. The Star The Star culminates its meaning with meditation and revelation. You have given deep thought to and thoroughly gazed at your naked soul, and have earned the ability to truly see yourself; you’ve earned purity through self-truth. The surface of your life ripples with the impulses of your meditative mind and inspiration will soon crystallize. As the symbol for the radiant energy of the Universe, the Star g

Below is an excerpt from the Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: XVI. The Tower A bolt strikes your core, breaks your branch from the middle. What was once your ordinary personality has been electrified by the jolt of a divine nature… and this flash of intuition has severed a previous sense of self-stability. Not to worry, this destruction serves the purpose of intensified wisdom. Though the trunk may not withstand the surge, your roots will remain intact and stretc

Excerpt from Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: XV. The Devil You wear a mask you’ve made yourself. The Devil (an inner force inside us all) masterfully deceives you. He easily drowns you in the deep, grim swamp of your fears and addictions. He says, “You are bound to impulse. You have no control.” But you do have control—the Devil is you, all along. Bondage to any form of reality occurs when we don’t refine our use of personality to serve our higher nature. En

Excerpt from Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: XIV. Temperance The Temperance card distinguishes itself as a warning and a reminder. You may feel strain – an awkward tugging inside – deciphering decisions to make in matters involving an intricate amalgamation of the heart’s desires and a practical world. Your willful wish will manifest, but not within the timeline you’ve anticipated. Your task is to integrate and balance an abundance of ideas and feelings that are

Excerpt from Dark Days Tarot Guidebook by Emily Mundy: XII. The Hanged Man The Hanged Man represents a mind that is “hanging” or suspended in a stagnant realm of distorted acuity. The reversed position signifies the imperative need to perceive ourselves from an alternative angle. More effort and care is needed to liberate our minds from this sticky stagnancy. The card upright suggests that life has decelerated for a time to allow the querent to recognize what needs to be