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Sometimes You Can’t Win for Losing — So Switch Paradigms

24 Jul 2013
  You know the days that I'm talking about. Even when you win it doesn't feel like a win (Five of Swords, reversed Six of Wands). Do you see the…
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Facing the Music of Defeat

11 Jan 2013
The Five of Swords plus Justice reversed: this doesn't look like an easy day. Unfairness, bad news, and defeat. We may have tried and tried, but there is one battle…
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Cards for the Day: 8 of Cups/5 of Swords: Victory through Embracing Defeat

13 Oct 2012
"It isn't whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game." How often do we really realize how true this is? Let me put it another way by…
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Cards for the Day: R’d Devil/7 of Swords: Foolish Heroism Stops Liar in Tracks by Changing Rules of Game

3 Oct 2012
This is one of those days when we can see how much the Samurai Tarot differs from the Rider-Waite. The Samurai Tarot's version of these cards is a bit different,…
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Cards for the Day: R’d 10 of Swords/R’d 8 of Pentacles: Defeat Brings Liberation, Perspective, Flexibility

3 Jul 2012
It's not an easy day. In the Rider-Waite deck, the Ten of Swords is depicted by a person lying down with ten swords sticking out of her (or his) back.…

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