The Two of Swords: Balancing the Honeymoon Stage and Avoiding Burnout
Your energy has drawn you to the Book of Tales. Your spirit is requesting you remember the importance of Balance within your creative knowledge and pursuits. Two Swords come together over a field of mushrooms, which contain the power to communicate with powerful Earthly giants — trees. Where the two Swords touch, magic happens: galaxies are born from the explosion. What does the Book contain? It’s anyone’s guess. Perhaps it contains every story ever told, a how-to for everything ever created, every spell ever said, directions into the afterlife, or the meaning to life itself. The Book can’t be read, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be heard.
You’re likely in the honeymoon period of a new creative pursuit — or experiencing the excitement and fears of a new job, a new relationship, or new circumstances. This card could symbolize that this new endeavor has you a bit overwhelmed, overstimulated, or overextended — though you might not mind at the moment. On the other hand, perhaps it’s a reminder that you haven’t tried anything new in a while and are in danger of burning out from your routine or norm. Grow some branches.
If you’re feeling blocked:
Your biggest creative block may come from procrastinating on something that must be done; do it, and reward yourself appropriately. Perhaps you’ve been too focused on something that does not suit you, or overly focused on the thing that pleases you the most; either option leads to imbalance and an eventual impasse. Try to adjust your routine so that you’re spending time both inside your comfort zone and outside of it; for every hour you spend doing the thing you love doing the most spend 20-30 minutes doing the thing you hate doing the most but that must still be done.
Creativity exercises:
Create a meditation: something that illustrates what meditation means to you, something to meditate to, something to help focus your mind now and in the future.
Turn to an old book for inspiration. Write some fan fiction, find poetry in the words, illustrate something straight from the page, create new cover art, make your own fairy-sized landscape.
Write a tale about the Book of Tales. Where is it located? Why has it been so seemingly abandoned? Who knows where it’s located?
Go online and pick a video tutorial on something outside your scope of expertise to follow along to.