triple_entendre
Wasting energy on the trivial, frozen in crisis, restricted, confused, feeling powerless, trapped by circumstances.
The Brambles Crone lives among the blackberry hedges where the fruit is tempting and sweet, but even the leaves have wickedly curved thorns to catch and hold. The little hummingbird may flit and navigate with ease among such treacherous tangles, but the noble and grand elegance of the Swan with the arcing spread of her wings is not for such tangled and thorny corridors.
-- from Shadowscapes.com
The landscape of the bramble comes to a head, specifically a large-nosed head covered by a faun-horned hood. The whole patch appears to just be an extension of the Brambles Crone's cloak. This card shows a swan wrapped, and trapped in thorny vines, stuck with sword-shaped shadows, while a hummingbird flits freely above.
That the hummingbird experiences the bramble differently than the swan, is a touch of positivity. In any situation that the Eight of Swords can apply to: are you being forced to change your very nature, or merely your perspective? Sometimes, of course, the friction between one's nature and one's circumstances are so great that there really is no choice-- even though others might keep seeing that there is one.
The Brambles Crone lives among the blackberry hedges where the fruit is tempting and sweet, but even the leaves have wickedly curved thorns to catch and hold. The little hummingbird may flit and navigate with ease among such treacherous tangles, but the noble and grand elegance of the Swan with the arcing spread of her wings is not for such tangled and thorny corridors.
-- from Shadowscapes.com
The landscape of the bramble comes to a head, specifically a large-nosed head covered by a faun-horned hood. The whole patch appears to just be an extension of the Brambles Crone's cloak. This card shows a swan wrapped, and trapped in thorny vines, stuck with sword-shaped shadows, while a hummingbird flits freely above.
That the hummingbird experiences the bramble differently than the swan, is a touch of positivity. In any situation that the Eight of Swords can apply to: are you being forced to change your very nature, or merely your perspective? Sometimes, of course, the friction between one's nature and one's circumstances are so great that there really is no choice-- even though others might keep seeing that there is one.
