The 4 of Swords Tarot Card: Don’t Try to Force Brilliance
The 4 of Swords piece of you can be creating space for your brilliance to rise. Embedded deep within us all is innate wisdom. So often though, our very own thoughts prevent this brilliance from rising. The chaos of our own mind, the hustle and bustle of daily life, and the constancy of having to absorb and interpret all of the everything that is coming at us from other sources, other people, media manipulation has created blocks against our own true brilliance.
What do we do about this? We need to take time to sort through our thoughts and filter what is organic to us and what is implanted and/or what we are bombarded with from other sources. To do this, we need to take time to meditate and to hear only the voices that are pertinent to you. This will happen in times of rest. This will happen when we are not trying to force anything to happen.
The important thing is to be in or create the necessary environment for this. We need to create both an internal environment where your mind is calm, and an external environment where we will not be disturbed out of our quiet and mediation. When we are able to create a meditative environment for ourselves where we can go within, then we will hear the true intrinsic voices of our wisdom and not just the noise of the outside world. —Jim Larsen