To Trust

This week I'll be using the Idiosyncradeck Tarot, created and self-published by Jessica Bott. Along with it, I'll be drawing from the Mixed Emotions Cards, created by Petra Martin with Kris Wiltse (Illustrator) and published by Heron Lake Press. Today's draws are the Queen of Swords and Trusting:

The Queen of Swords prefers truth that is grounded in the reality of hard evidence. She may come off as cool and uncaring, but she actually wants people to be able to come to grips with their life, however it may show up. Like the tree's star-shaped flowers, she shines a light on our fantasies, denials and delusions so that we can step out of them and begin acting with a purpose that can produce a beneficial result. But our fabrications and the figments of our imagination can be comforting, making it awfully hard to leave our cozy bubble. 'Trusting' brings to mind a quote by Nelson Mandela: "Problems can only be solved if one is part of a team." Finding a person or people we can trust and share our struggles with means the possibilities for a solution can become doubled or tripled. We also find the emotional support needed to deal with world rather than run from it. 

You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. ―Hanya Yanagihara