5.27-6.2.2025: Nine of Swords, Wisdom, & Death

Our collective message this week relates to Wisdom. The Wisdom we find within, from those who have gone before us, from formal and informal education, from growing older and experiencing life’s lessons.

This week asks us to reflect on how life’s challenges have led to personal growth. It encourages us to realize that whatever difficult thing you’re going through (or have recently gone through) has a lesson for you.

Please don’t misread this as toxic “everything happens for a reason” messaging—because F*** that rhetoric. Sometimes horrible, horrific, atrocious things happen and there is no good reason for it (I refuse to try to “reason away” the loss of a child, for instance).

The crux of today’s message is not to find the REASON this thing happened, but rather to glean whatever WISDOM we can from the situation. Maybe the wisdom is simply: I grew from this experience. Or: Things turned out better than I was expecting. Or: Things turned out worse than I was expecting, and yet I still managed to survive. Or maybe it’s: A part of me died off with this experience and I now understand that that was necessary in order for me to evolve.

>>What Wisdom can be gleaned from this (challenging, awful, painful, insert your adjective here) situation?<<

It’s a deeply personal question, and one that I hope you’ll spend some time with this week.