The Rewilding Retrospective #1: May 2025

🪞 Blades and Breakthroughs

🌕 One Month Ago… I Pulled the Nine of Swords

April 30, 2025.

That was the day The Rewilding Dispatch began.

That was the day I pulled the Nine of Swords—the card of midnight spirals, subconscious screaming, sleepless fear.

That card showed me a truth I didn’t want to see, but couldn’t ignore anymore:

“You’re surviving something that’s already over.”
“You’re still carrying weight that no longer belongs to you.”
“You’re ready to stop living on the edge of collapse.”

And I wept.
And I wrote.
And I published the first Bear Bones Tarot post.

I thought it would be a daily tarot check-in.
Instead, it became a portal. A practice. A spell. A reclamation.

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🗡️ The Month of Swords: A Pattern Revealed

What followed that first pull wasn’t random.

The cards that arrived over the next 30+ days carried one suit—Swords.
Again and again and again.

Each blade was a message.

Each blade was a mirror.

Each blade cut through old stories I didn’t realize I was still bleeding from.

Let me show you what I mean: