🪶 Bear Bones Tarot – Friday, October 17, 2025
Six of Swords – The Calm After the Storm
This card showed up for me this morning, and the message hit right in the heart:
“Today, seek out space to calm your emotions & think things through. It is difficult to have a clear perspective or make good decisions when emotions are high. You may be aware that you need to make changes in your life, but it is important to soothe yourself first. Taking the time to care for yourself will help you see the way forward.”
🐻 Part 1: For the Writers
The Six of Swords is a soft but serious card — it whispers, “It’s time to move on, even if the water is still choppy.”
This is the card of emotional decompression. It arrives when the storm has passed, but the sea inside you hasn’t yet gone still. It’s the transition between survival and clarity — between reaction and response.
Writers know this terrain intimately.
It’s that moment after the breakdown, when you finally close the laptop or put the pen down, whispering, “I can’t keep doing it like this.”
It’s the moment when you stop trying to write through chaos and start steering yourself toward peace, even if you’re rowing with one oar and shaky hands.
You may not be where you want to be yet — in your craft, your sales, or your confidence — but you are leaving the land of burnout and self-doubt behind.
And that? That’s sacred motion.
✨ This card invites you to:
Breathe before you begin again.
Trust that the fog will lift.
Let silence become your strategy for a day.
Treat “enough” as an act of rebellion.
🕯️ Today’s Practical Magick:
Light a candle or open a window and whisper:
“Peace is a direction, not a destination.”
Then, take three slow breaths before you touch your work-in-progress.
(You’ll be amazed at how much easier your words flow when your nervous system feels safe.)
