Hi friends,
Welcome to your weekly terrascope.
This is for the third week of May,
Starting May 18th,
2026.
Our card of the week is the Nine of Swords.
And honestly,
This makes complete sense to me.
If you look at the Nine of Swords,
There's usually someone in bed and they look awake and they look worried.
And that really is what this card is.
It's insomnia,
It's anxiety,
It's mental noise.
But here's what's happening for us currently.
We start off with the Page of Cups and that is all about being open-hearted and asking for more,
Wishing for more,
Dreaming for more.
We had the Hierophant where we're starting to reconnect with that part of ourselves,
Whether we're finding a teacher or realizing we're the teacher,
Into the Four of Wands where we were allowed,
We allowed ourselves to experience joy while feeling safe.
And what happens when we feel safe?
At some point,
The back of our brain comes over and says,
Our guard is down,
We are vulnerable,
We have to protect.
We have to protect.
And so anxiety comes up because we start worrying about that.
We have mental chatter.
We start overthinking.
Our old fears start to resurface because there's a part of our brain that is used to a pattern where when something good happens,
We're expecting for the other shoe to drop or we're expecting for something bad to happen.
There's a part of us that believe that's how it balances out the good and the bad.
And the truth is,
That is old.
That is an old way of being the old system.
And we're experiencing this because we just had a week of joy with the Four of Wands.
And now our brain is thinking,
Wait,
Okay,
We're safe.
And now here is what we've been holding on to.
So it can be this,
That it's coming up for you to let go.
Now that you've experienced celebration and safety,
Your brain,
Your system is saying,
Well,
Here are the other things that I've been worried about.
Maybe you have had racing thoughts.
Maybe you're second guessing yourself.
Maybe you're fearing losing what right now feels good or just kind of waiting for the other thing to go wrong.
It is a pattern that happens when we are so open and we allow joy in.
Our fear then says,
This is not going to last.
And that is exactly what the Nine of Swords is.
It is a protecting pattern.
It is overthinking decisions that we initially felt really good about.
Sometimes it is showing up as trouble sleeping,
Or we have looping thoughts.
There's so much doubt that comes with this.
It's just truly our mind trying to regain control because when we believe we're in control,
Then we think nothing can happen.
But the truth is,
We're not ever fully in control.
We can only control how we deal with things in this moment.
Not what we did before and not what we're going to do,
But literally in the second.
And the truth is,
Nothing is falling apart.
You are expanding your ability,
Your capacity to feel really good,
Feel really great without shutting it down with fear that appears to be control.
So be kind to yourself,
My friend.
Be very kind.
Sending you lots of support and a lot of love.
Until next time.
