Remember when

 

Wow, what a sad, heart-wrenching card. I almost put it back in the deck, put the deck back in the box, and shoved the box to the back of the drawer. To abandoned one's children? But the Tarot does sometimes evoke memories, and not all good. This portrayal of the Three of Swords  may ask, where or how does abandonment issues effect the viewer? I have abandonment issues, I guess many of us do, maybe nothing this traumatic, yet still the ache of being left behind clings to us like a heavy wet blanket, unable to move with the weight of the shroud.

As we get older we should be able to to let go of old hurts, move beyond old lessons of fear, but not. We are humans walking through the forest and some things haunt us all of our days.

The Forest of Enchantment