Six of Swords
This old brick house has weathered storms and time, slowly aging and loosening. Then something arrives — it fills the cracks, adds color, shares your pressure and pain. Gradually, it seeps into your life and becomes part of you. But soon you notice the “wall” is being “eroded,” and you are no longer yourself.
It seems to shelter you, to protect you from the elements, yet like creeping ivy, once it infiltrates the wall, it inevitably damages the structure. It works like a chronic condition — harmless at first, until one day it covers you entirely and alters your life beyond retreat. Here, the ivy hasn’t grown uncontrollably yet. There is still a chance. Whether to delay or heal at the root depends entirely on you.
UPRIGHT
Dependence, chronic issues, meeting halfway, companionship, working together, temporary stability, hardship, unconscious change, steadiness.
REVERSED
Rooting out, plans disrupted, setbacks, collapse, unable to maintain, turbulence, needing active communication, difficult to heal, barriers.