XX - Decision, culmination, resolution, knowing yourself, self responsibility, rebalance.
XIX - Success, achievement, favor, expansion, earned status, successful completion.
IX - Introspection, self examination, maturity through adversity, isolation that leads to wisdom.
Prince of Swords - A helper who can protect you. Or an enemy who tries to destroy you. (based on context)
Nine of Swords - Hatred, attack, enemy, suspicions, grief, suffering, pain.
Nine of Wands - Battle weary, struggle, adversity, a warning of dishonesty, injury, treachery.
Life patterns come in cycles. You've been around the cycle of Fate before, leading to your current position of success. However, continued growth does not occur without adversity, and Fate may bring such to your path in the form of an individual whose negativity seeks to bring you down, perhaps by dishonesty. If you "know yourself," you will advance in maturity and wisdom. The danger lies in giving up, going against your principles, taking the 'easy' path. Though you may feel isolated, you are not truly alone. Learn to be at peace with yourself, and the road will open up once again.
Card interpretations are generally from
Tarot Skills for the 21st Century by Josephine McCarthy.
Introduction I began working with a tarot deck in my mid-teens back in the 1970s. It triggered an awakening to many things for me, both mystical and magic. It is now forty-five years later, and tarot, along with the broader concept of using cards for divination and mystical-magical thought, have...
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