Five of Swords

Positive

Self-interest, Survival Mode, Defeat

  1. Be careful that winning doesn't put you in danger of losing a relationship or your reputation.
  2. Never let a fear of being wrong be led by a fear of losing control. Your ego could be behind all of it.
  3. Beware your victory doesn't isolate you from others. An end to a battle is not the battle's end.
  4. Is the price of winning worth the reward? Would accepting defeat be more acceptable?
  5. Look at your own way with a critical eye. Fine-tune the places that need improvement.
  6. Give others what they need to better themselves.

Negative

Amend, Conflict, Forgive and Forget, Open to Change

  1. Tension drains your magic. Release the tension, protect your magic.
  2. Your opinions are validated by YOURself. Go in and move out. Be authentic.
  3. Who do you need to be right with? Begin negotiations. Disregard fallacy and see the human in front of you.
  4. Not everyone will share your joy of living your life your way.
  5. To thine own self be true, in loving and caring ways.

Quotes

  • Win as if you were use to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
  • An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. - Gandhi
  • To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. - Lao Tzu
  • The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must destroy a world. - Hesse
  • Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. - Rumi