Emotional blockages prevent you from living your life in alignment with your soul’s true desire. Blockages can be around money, career, success, abundance, love, relationships or your life’s purpose. Negative thinking, a negative mindset and emotional blockages prevent you from experiencing happiness and fulfilling your hopes, dreams and desires. They prevent you from moving forward and living your life to your fullest potential. There are a number of Tarot cards that reflect emotional blockages:
Two Of Swords
This card indicates a refusal to see things the way they are, indecision, choices, blocked emotions, confusion, or feeling over whelmed. With the tips of the swords out of the picture and together with the blindfold, she refuses to confront the situation and see things as they really are. She crosses the swords over her heart, in attempt to block her negative emotions. This creates a stalemate situation that prevents any movement forward. A truce is required in order to bring peace, whether it is a personal inner emotional blocked or with another person.
Five Of Swords
The Five of Swords is a card criticism from others, inner tension, negative self-talk, conflict, self- sabotaging behaviour and your Inner Critic. This card represents the inner conflict between our positive true self, our conscious mind and our Inner Critic, the subconscious mind. It is the struggle between what our actions and what we truly desire.It can be criticism from people around you, destructive thoughts and beliefs that block you prevent you from achieving your dreams and goals by keeping you in a negative mindset.
Eight Of Swords
This card indicates a refusal to see things the way they are, indecision, choices, blocked emotions, confusion, or feeling over whelmed. With the tips of the swords out of the picture and together with the blindfold, she refuses to confront the situation and see things as they really are. She crosses the swords over her heart, in attempt to block her negative emotions. This creates a stalemate situation that prevents any movement forward. A truce is required in order to bring peace, whether it is a personal inner emotional blocked or with another person.
Five Of Wands
Although not as vicious and destructive as the Five of Swords, the Five of Wands indicates a conflict between our thoughts and actions with our dreams, hopes and desires. There may be too much going on in your life that acts as a distraction from that which you long to achieve, or it can just represent that conflict between what you really want in life and your current thoughts and actions. However, it reflects the inner tension, strife and internal disagreement between what we desire and what we actually do.
The Moon
The Moon represents our subconscious mind that is there to protect us in times of danger of threat. It is the necessary part of our mind that protects us whenever we are confronted with danger and expresses itself as the “flight or fight” response in an effort to keep us safe. However, the subconscious mind acts out of fear and keeping us in the dark and delusional. The Moon represents fear, anxiety, insecurity and illusion. You are not seeing things are they really are and fear is blocking you and holding you back. The pool of water represents the negative thoughts, beliefs and memories that create emotional blockages in your life. Once you can release these you are able to move forward through the gateway beyond.
The Devil
The Devil is the ultimate card of bondage, blockages, limiting beliefs, negative thoughts, fear, procrastination, self-sabotaging behaviour and everything else that holds us back!! It represents all the hidden forces of negativity that restrict and constrain you. There may be a sense of powerlessness and hopelessness. However, the figures in this card are free to remove the chains from around their necks. In a similar way, you too are able to break free from your chains of imprisonment and the negativity that keeps you stuck and restricted your life. Know that you have the power to remove the chains and set yourself free. Now is the time to empower yourself.
Four Of Pentacles
The Four of Pentacles is a card of emotional blockages – blockages of the heart, throat and mind. There is a focus on work, career and financial security at the expense of your happiness, dreams, heart’s desire and soul’s true purpose. With the focus on material wealth the person in this card totally blocks his true emotions and feelings. It can reflect working in a job that pays the bills but fails to give you true satisfaction or fulfill your life purpose. This card is also a card a possessiveness indicating that you are holding onto old wounds and pin from the past that is having an impact on your health and well being. It is only when you can release old emotional baggage that you can move forward in your life and find happiness, joy and peace.
Four Of Pentacles
Judgement is a card of karmic patterns, self-doubt, self-evaluation, self-examination, accountability and your inner calling! It is probably one of the most important cards in relations to blockages!! Firstly, Judgement asks you to be accountable for you past actions and take responsibility for your thoughts and actions. The past is over and can’t be changed, but you have total control of future thought, actions and outcomes!
This card is also about absolution and forgiveness, forgiving others who have hurt us, as well as forgiving ourselves for our mistakes and inadequacies. We need to learn self-compassion, self-love and self-forgiveness if we are to move forward in our lives and find happiness and inner peace.
Judgement is also about your calling in life – your soul’s true purpose and why you are here. Are you just existing, working in a boring job just to pay the bills or really living the life that you dream of? How you discovered your soul’s true purpose in this life?
Finally, Judgement is a card of re-birth and new beginnings, which means that now is the time to release all the past pain, negativity, critic, judgement and embrace a new mindset that is positive, supportive and empowering.
If any of these cards have been coming up consistently in your readings, then perhaps you are struggling with emotional blockages, negative beliefs or destructive thoughts that restricting your happiness and preventing you from achieving your goals. Tarot can help to uncover the blockages, where they came from – whether it is just the past and/or past lives, and help you release them for good. Once you are free from negativity you will be able to replace the old destructive patterns with a new mindset that is positive, supportive and empowering. Your purpose in life is to know your life lessons and overcome them so that you can find happiness and help others.
