The Ten of Swords is the Sun in Gemini. In the tarot, the Sun card represents understanding yourself (at last!). The Sun is also the joy of a new day after a very long & dark night. Gemini is represented by the Lovers Card, which speaks to the duality of choice. Therefore with the Ten of Swords in your birthchart, you are a person who only clearly sees the choices you've made, after you've already made them. You see your path as through the rear-view mirror. You are tested over & over again in situations where your direction is uncertain. Once you give up trying to find a way through, the way appears. With total surrender comes crystal clarity about exactly what happened, how it happened, why it happened, why it HAD to happen, as well as laser focus on the decisions (and indecisions) that caused it to happen in the first place. You are a person who comes to know yourself through a lengthy process of elimination; after experiencing the consequences of choices that depleted you, you come to recognize the choices that nourish & support you. This was likely very difficult in childhood as you may have gotten in trouble for making questionable choices even though you "should have known better." As you grew up, you did "know better," however your confidence may have been lost due to being hard on yourself for "not having known in the first place." This may have led you not to trust your own intuition. Believe it or not, you will come to a place in your life where you don't have to experience the wrong thing to know its the wrong thing. You have the capability of giving very wise counsel, because you have the benefit of hindsight that other people don't. Your reverse clarity provides an uncanny foresight for those coming behind you. You have the makings of a guru.
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