With Worn-out Tools | 8/2026 Tarot Reading

Okay, so the first card, the position that it's in is what I call the crux.

The whole reading sort of orbits around it.

It'll have to do with it.

You could think of it in narrative terms as sort of the inciting incident or perhaps the tragic flaw or something along those lines.

Let's see what we've got.

This is the Six of Swords.

Swords have to do with, generally speaking, the intellect, the rational mind, the forebrain, the problem solver, as I like to call it, and we all have a little problem solver in our head.

And the six of swords, what which depicts here is what I tend to think of as a family.

You've got the patriarch of the family in the back of the boat rowing, and you've got wife and child in the boat, and they're carrying six actual swords from one place to another along, you know, maybe we're crossing a river, we're crossing a body of water.

A couple of things worth noting is one is that to the left of the boat, there is, uh, you know, even calm seas.

And to the right of the boat, it's a little bit more turbulent.

Not crazy, but definitely more turbulent than on the left side.

Also, we would assume that the way that these swords are jammed into the boat, that that would make... puncture the hull of the boat and create and cause it to begin sinking.

Another thing we note here as well is that the guy who's steering it, let's call him the patriarch of this little family, he's using a big long rod to sort of push the boat along.

Maybe it's an oar, but whatever the case, it's taking on the symbolic meaning of a wand.

Now, what does this mean? This card is in real basic terms, it's generally associated with sort of travel and moving on and When we say moving on this isn't the transition like we're setting out on an adventure Necessarily this is sort of more like the travel Refugee might make right.

This is like we kind of have to do this.

We have to kind of get to the other side we've been pushed out of where we were from our comforts of home through famine or economic crisis or whatever and So I see this card and I'd ask you to think about, you know, in what ways are you moving on from a situation that has sort of pushed you out, right? What is the thing that you had going on that maybe six months ago or a year ago or five years ago or 10 years ago is a very comfortable situation or at least tolerable and circumstances have kind of pushed us out.

And so we've got that sort of somewhat remorseful or at least a little bit sad kind of and certainly uncertain move on is what's happening here now a couple of things worth noting so if we're in this transitionary process the things the things that we have to keep in mind are that well first the swords If we're moving on, we have to move on based on circumstances, and we're under the responsibility of taking care of either other people, our family and our loved ones, or other parts of ourselves.

In any tarot reading where there are multiple figures, I believe you can interpret it as either other people in your world, in your life, or other parts of yourself, subpersonalities, aspects of yourself, things like...

the inner child right or the protector entity that you have within you or that that sort of thing so we're fair we're shepherding along this little family whether that's the other parts of ourselves or the other people we're actually responsible for And it's worth noting here that these swords, as I said, are jammed into the hull of the boat and they're likely causing they're doing one of two things.

And it's worth thinking about which of these two it might be.

They've either poked a hole in the hull and they're causing a leak or they're they've they've made a hole, but they're the only thing keeping that hole from leaking.

Right.

So we think about the way and what does this what does this mean? Swords represent, as I said, sort of the problem solving mind.