So… the 1o of Swords is the card in Mystereum that fascinates me the most…
It feels to be an anomaly for several reasons…
For a deck that went out and created itself a new way of talking, suddenly this card pops up and there seems to be a throw back to the old school Rider Waite…
And what’s with that X? It’s the only card in the deck to bear its number boldly in the image…
And then there’s the notable exception of there being a figure present… figures are absent from the Sword pips, other than here at 10 and the hand in 6… What is that figure? Is it a man? Is it a washed up seal…?
(c) Jordan Hoggard 2010
I think generally, in any deck, the 10 of Swords is perceived as being heavy duty and often it sends people like this…
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Though I find that is the effect on the casual passer by… when it appears in a reading and we start to talk, it often shows up as being the point where someone has finally had enough… the last straw… you know, the one the broke the camel’s back…
Or did it?
When I look at the 10 of Swords, it starts to multi-stream thoughts a bit like those screens in Minority Report… Swoosh! Swoosh!
I’ve flung down a couple of slip streams…
I like the 10 of Swords…
To me it says – What are you going to do? Lie down and quit… Or get up and kick ass?
Get some clarity and take your fate into your own hands…
So… I go back to that anomalous X and maybe its not a 10 at all…
Maybe it’s a letter X…
Maybe it’s an X marks the spot…
The place where your inner treasure is buried…
The pure and blessed way 
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I like your version of the 10 of Swords because it highlights the fact that the pain doesn’t have to own you – the swords hurt, but they’re also something of an illusion, and you do in fact have power to stand up and walk on.
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Thanks Olivia… I’ve got a quote rolling around my head (I have no idea if I have it exact or where it comes from…) The past is a foreign country, I don’t live there anymore. 😉
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