Swords · Three
Three of Swords
hurtseparationtruthgrief
Upright
This hurts and the hurt is accurate rather than imagined.
Name the injury plainly before it hardens.
The information that arrives here is unpleasant but it ends an illusion.
Grief after honesty is shorter than the anxiety before it.
Do not build a story of betrayal on one sentence.
Reversed
The wound is healing and you can speak about it without reliving it.
Old pain is being applied to a current situation.
Healing here is visible as fewer repeated conversations about the same injury.
Apologise for your part and stop requiring a matching apology.
Let one person hear the whole version once.
Original Chinese reading
Upright: 伤心、被言语刺伤、痛心
Reversed: 伤痛渐愈、释怀、走出阴霾