Over the years, when the 3 of Swords comes up, almost instantaneously I hear, “Oh shit! Heartbreak!”
If being hard on yourself actually worked as constructive criticism, it would have worked by now. Right? That’s a misinterpretation of stick-to-it-iveness. You don’t need to stick in there regardless, unless, for you whatever it is has the heart of the matter in it. No need for pros and cons or good or bad in a situation. That’s a bunch of ‘there are facts, damn facts, and then there are statistics’ bs.
There is no need to avoid not quitting. Rather than quitting or not quitting, ask:
~ What’s workable?
~ Where’s the workability? Is there any?
~ No workability?, then pay it nevermind.
~ Workability? Nods to that. what do you do about it?
good = favoritism. bad = shaming behavior.
Neither are in others’ best interest, certainly not yours.
Instead, what treasures do you hide in ‘good’ and ‘bad.’
So, The 3 of Swords
You are a Temple, inside and out. May you be and continue to become your own Temple inside and out as Tarot informs the intuition of your steps. Yup. that’s a long-form discipline of the ritual. It’s not a hassle or when will this end kind of thing. It can be Blisscipline, where the heart of the matter lives in the steps.
Always complete, never finished, lifelong.
3 of Swords Revisited
Over the years, when the 3 of Swords comes up, almost instantaneously, I hear, “Oh shit! Heartbreak!” ??? Now, how’s that? Swords are about air, intellect, thinking, communications. What’s with this heartbreak stuff? Yeah yeah, tradition and all. That’s what everyone teaches and all. It’s quite a lot like a person cutting the ends off the brisket before putting it in the oven because grandma did. Shaking my head. Grandma did it because her oven was too small back then.
Yup, That Heart is Big and Bold
Yup, that heart is big and bold in the 3 of Swords image, though to see it as heartbreak is much like banging your thumb with a hammer, when you have no hammer. This is a Swords card, not a Cup card. Why go straight to the heart with a Swords card? Especially, after the 2 may just have covered her heart to feed the heart of the matter up through the thoughts as a preamble support to develop into the 3 of Swords.
decision time, balanced opposites in ideas, upcoming decisions, mirrored thoughts, focusing to think and see in a new way 
Cross the Both~And Sword-thoughts to vessel the heart and pump the heart of the matter up into the thoughts. Enjoy her mind-movie that she shows behind her of what’s playing within her.
From my perspective the first thing that comes to mind (Swords pun) is to aspirate your heart. Give it some air. Consciously give your heart the breathing room it needs.
Heck. Sure, a heart without breathing room leads to heartbreak, though the heart in this card has plenty of breathing room, actually the whole scene. It is not constrained at all. It’s connected by Swords to the head. 2 of the swords are giving it oxygen like a bubbler in an aquarium, and one exhausts out the top like a roof vent. That’s more than decent ventilation so the head doesn’t get too stuffy with thoughts that don’t pulse and pump with the heart of the matter. I don’t see anything near heartbreak there. I see the head in connection with the heart. I see the heart of the matter present in thoughts and the process of thinking. And, if the heart of the matter is not present, thoughts are as useless as fish scales for dinner.
Give Your Heart Some Breathing Room
Aspirate Your Heart with the 3 of Swords
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Postscript:
When you focus on the ‘good’ or ‘bad’ of your fellows (yourself), you make an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you. (Every time you act, you command the Universe. Mind that. Create with that. Act with that. Make with that.)
~ Morihei Ueshiba, Founder of Aikido. Translation by John Stevens in The Art of Peace
Where’s the treasure in the trouble? Gold pan those nuggets and let the remaining alluvium wash back into the river. The snake its skin shedded, the snake its skin not missed.
Personally, to go with the 3 of Swords — I find judgment to be farcical as it it generated from bias and expectations. Justice? Heart weighed against a feather? Nods. That’s not that your heart weighs a pound or so to Ma’at. Justice weighing your heart against a feather is a question of whether your heart is bouyant enough to unweight the scale with a feather.
How do you actionably use the 3 of Swords to your benefit today?
sticking to the point, ideas cutting through, quickening, focusing thought to make your point sharply decision time, balanced opposites in ideas that focus what is actually here, upcoming decisions, mirrored thoughts, focusing to think and see in a new way… the new way without expectation of what’s really present 
The heart of the matter actionably alive in thoughts, head in healthy marriage with heart. Also, mental refraction, distorted thoughts, taking care with yourself by moving slowly 
Balance of the 4 psychological functions: intuition, feeling, thinking, sensation. The self-cooling psychological fan. The more intensely the movement and interaction, the more intense of the self-cooling inner fan. Initial fruition of ideas, balanced communication in motion 
the eye of the storm, the missing middle is teeny and also it is calm and red, residual fossil impressions. Initial, natural thought. Not chaos as that is a concept. This is he wonderfully natural mind. Nature knows no emotions, only weather. How’s your inner weather? 
Full communication as the bones of your exchange. You have enough. Reaching for more may hurt or overload you. time to stop and work with a full plate of thoughts on hand. 
sneaky, stealthy, hiding in plain sight, Shadow Hand. Where’s the 7th Sword? What is obvious, though may not be evident due to your blind spots of expectations?
(C) 2022 Jordan Hoggard
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