Spade · IX

Nove di Spade

Anguish of the unquiet mind. Worry, grief, a rehearsal of catastrophe. The swords are on the wall, not in the body — which does not make the night less real, only less prophetic.

ELEMENTO: aria
NUMERO: Nine — near-full: night grief, nine on the wall, a figure at the edge of the bed.
SIMBOLI: a seated figure in a dark room, face in hands, a quilt of roses on the bed · nine swords hung on the wall, thought as a rack of night · carved figures in the bedframe, old stories under the insomnia · no window, the mind as the only weather

DRITTA

+naming the 3 a.m. script
+seeking help for a mind that will not lie down
+compassion for a suffering that is mostly invisible
−catastrophizing as a full-time job
−isolating with the wall of blades
−using night-pain to refuse the day's smaller remedies

IN AMORE: Anxiety about the bond, a sleepless quarrel. The other cannot fight the nine swords for you. They can sit on the edge of the bed if you will let them.
NEL LAVORO: Dread, rumination about a mistake, a future invented in the dark. Write it down at dawn. Not all of it will survive daylight.
IN SÉ: You are not your night. Get the body help. The roses on the quilt are still roses.

CAPOVOLTA

The night is lifting, or it has gone wordless — a first sleep, or a despair that no longer even makes images.

Bloccata — la corrente dritta esiste ed è sbarrata.
Interiorizzata — il dramma è interiore piuttosto che mondano.

Reversed Nine of Swords can be relief after a vigil. Inner Nine is private torment. Blocked Nine will not admit the room is dark.

STA BENE CON: La Luna Quattro di Spade La Stella Cinque di Coppe
SI TENSIONA CON: Il Sole Asso di Coppe Tre di Coppe Il Mondo

CIÒ CHE NON DIREMO DI QUESTA LASTRA

it's all in your head, relax
you will have a breakdown
your fears are coming true