“What is your anxiety about? How does it block you? How does it serve you?” tarot reading ✦ Pick a pile ✦
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What is your anxiety about? 10 of Swords
Your anxiety is connected to a difficult period — one that you have either already gone through or are currently experiencing. During this time, you may feel cornered, deprived of opportunities for growth or for manifesting your desires. You may have experienced betrayal or come to realize that not all of your dreams are as easily attainable as you once thought.
When we find ourselves in the midst of challenging circumstances, our body sends us the signal: “Let's freeze so we can endure this.” And you may have indeed frozen to conserve your remaining resources and energy.
An important point — when we block ourselves, we also block our libido. Libido doesn't just refer to our sexual energy, it also represents our overall will and interest in life. It doesn't disappear — it simply transforms into anxiety.
Right now, your anxiety is telling you that you have a tremendous amount of resource within you to achieve your goals and dive into your interests. It's just that all your strength is currently being used to suppress your interest in life. Don't blame yourself for this — it was your survival strategy.
But you have survived. You are alive. You are breathing. So perhaps now is the time to listen to your body? Where does your soul want to lead you? What is it asking you to learn?
How does it block you? 3 of Swords
Right now, you might be closing yourself off from interacting with others. Because of past experiences, you may have convinced yourself that any contact is dangerous, that it drains you, and that even communicating with loved ones can feel like endless conflict. Maybe that's how it was. Maybe you had to play a role that you never truly wanted. But conflict can also teach us how to express our own needs and listen to the needs of someone else. Conflict arises whenever our “I” meets another person's “I” — and that is inevitable.
Don't force yourself to reach out to others just to escape loneliness, or because you think you're supposed to be around people all the time. If you feel that you need a break from communication right now — give it to yourself. But remember: that break shouldn't last forever.
Through connection, we come to know not only others — but also ourselves. Communication is an essential part of life, and it contains not only conflict, but also immense love.
If you believe that by shielding yourself from love you're also shielding yourself from pain — you will come to realize that you cannot have one without the other.
Of course, you should protect yourself from toxicity. But it's important to recognize the difference between pain that signals disrespect for your feelings and pain that is simply a symptom of growth, of getting to know yourself.
Do not close yourself off to those who are genuinely interested in an authentic and deep connection with you.
How does it serve you? Page of Wands
Your situation may have taught you to distinguish between people you want in your life and those you're better off parting ways with. Sometimes, anxiety arises from the fear that a new person will repeat an old pattern, or that you'll make the same mistakes in a new situation. But by recognizing your old mistakes, you've already grown past repeating them.
In essence, anxiety here keeps you alert — it says: “This is a new situation. This time, do things differently.” Your anxiety serves a protective function (you could even thank it for that), but if this protection gets in your way — that's something you can work with. You don't need to get rid of it entirely, because after all, it carries an important message: "Don't repeat yourself in new situations" or "I see red flags in a new connection; better take them seriously now and draw conclusions, instead of dragging it out until the very end."
What is your anxiety about? Judgement
Your anxiety is connected to the experience of loss and thoughts about the future. You may have reached a certain point, gotten what you wanted, but now that you're here, you don't understand: what comes next? This state is similar to when someone finishes high school, and standing at graduation, they think: “I thought I'd be with my friends forever, I thought I'd be preparing for exams forever. The exams are over, school is done, my friends are going their separate ways. What's waiting for me?”
You may have experienced any kind of loss — something you thought would last forever has come to an end. Whether it's finishing school, getting laid off, or the end of a relationship. Any experience takes time to process. Don't minimize your loss. Sit with it for as long as you need. Don't follow the advice of others to "fill the void" or "just move on." Moving on the way you used to is no longer possible, and you know that.
Give yourself all the time you need to accept the ending. Right now, the future might feel unpredictable and frightening. There's some truth to that, but there's also another side. The future is always unpredictable: every action we take influences how events unfold. But that's not something to be afraid of. On the contrary — try to see your future as an opportunity to explore life.
Your old chapter has ended. Now there's space for new experiences that will make your life more interesting, bring more depth to your life. What would you like to explore in this new phase of life? What direction is your interest pulling you toward? Listen to your inner voice — it will guide you exactly onto the path of new growth.
We don't need new experiences just to numb the pain of losing our old life, but to fill our emptiness with love and warmth.
How does it block you? Ace of Cups
You might have created an illusion of happiness.
When we don't want to face the pain of loss, we start clinging to the past and try to convince ourselves that everything will stay the same, that nothing has changed. “I felt good here, so I'm staying right where I am.”
You might be afraid to dive into your feelings and acknowledge them. But let's be honest — who are you trying to create this perfect picture for? Who are you trying to prove that you're fine? And more importantly — why? What feelings are you protecting yourself from?
What if those feelings are actually an important part of you — the part that teaches you to love and value your life, yourself, and the people around you?
Life can't always be perfectly good all the time. We need difficult chapters too. We cannot stand still forever: just as nature blooms, dies, and blooms again, we must learn to accept the endings of different life stages and move into new ones.
By trying to shield ourselves from “difficult feelings”, we only end up accumulating them inside, and that eventually turns into irritation toward the entire world around us: no matter what happens, you will feel hostile toward any change.
But by staying inside this illusion of happiness, you are only hurting yourself more.
It is incredibly hard to live inside a fabricated picture because it's a lie. And a lie forces us to constantly adjust to it. We stop feeling natural emotions — we rob ourselves of spontaneity and creative energy.
How does it serve you? Knight of Swords
Your anxiety teaches you to check in with reality: "Is this really happening the way I've imagined it in my head?"
Often, anxiety exaggerates how serious a situation is, while in reality, things turn out to be much simpler.
Our life path never confronts us with something we are fundamentally unable to handle.
Your anxiety helps you gather the necessary information, analyze past experiences, and extract useful knowledge from them — knowledge that helps you navigate life's difficulties.
Of course, we can't prepare for every hardship. We can't predict every possible fall. But in the future, when you do face a problem, your mental arsenal will already contain the right insights and understandings, thanks to which you won't fall, but will instead continue moving forward, continue growing into who you're meant to become.
