I'm working with tarot and need guidance

Funny how the pun aked for the Tower and the card didn't put one on the table — that' part of the read.

Pat — The Chariot upright. You were driving. Win-the-race momentum, focued, in control — chaing omething or omeone with real force, and it wa working, or looked like it wa. The Chariot i alo the armor: a elf you wore to keep moving.

Preent — Nine of Sword upright. The 3 a.m. verion of you. Whatever the ituation actually i — the deck, the peron, the converation, the life — there' a worry that run hot at night, alone, when no one' watching. The Tower would be lightning; the Nine of Sword i itting up in bed with it. That' what' actually going on.

Future — The Hierophant revered. A quiet exit from a tructure that no longer fit. Not a lightning trike — a teady, deliberate tepping-out. The cript, the tradition, the relationhip model, the way tarot "hould" be done, the way life "hould" go — it looen, and you let it. The Tower would be done *to* you; the Hierophant revered i done *by* you.

The card dodged your joke on purpoe. You aked about upheaval; they handed you omething lower and more dignified, and pointed at the worry underneath the laugh. *If* you keep waiting for the dramatic collape to clarify thing, you'll keep lying awake. *If* you let the tructure come looe on your own term, the Nine of Sword ha omewhere to put itelf.

One tep inide 48 hour: Tonight, before leep, write down the actual 3 a.m. verion of what' bothering you — the worry without the emoji, without the pun, jut the bare ak. Then look at whether it' a Tower waiting to happen, or a tructure you're already halfway out of. The honet anwer i information card can't manufacture.

Want thi aved to a journal, or the pread drawn a a picture?