You’re at the end of the road with a pattern of thinking and overthinking. Your mind is amazing and powerful but it’s not meant to handle everything alone. It’s time to get your body, heart, and spirit in the decision-making game.
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The good news is that you’re done with this go-round. 10s in tarot are influenced by the Wheel of Fortune, so they have that feel of moving in cycles. The flow here is pulling you away from this place of overthinking and offering you a new start. You’d have to fight pretty hard to keep yourself stuck here. Can you do that? Yes. Is it worth it? Probably not.
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Whatever you’re trying to figure out, take a break from it. At least for an hour, more if it makes sense. Then when you go back to it, give your mind a hand. Ask your body how it feels about the situation. Check in with your heart and intuition. Ask a trusted friend for their perspective. Draw a picture or do a dance about it.
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This can be a scary-looking card, but it’s a very helpful mirror to see when you’ve thought all you can, and it’s time to try something else.
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Card modeled by Hudson, who has never overthought anything in his life.

We've come to the end of a way of thinking. This is the perfect companion to yesterday's Tower, which showed us the end of a way of being. But where the Tower is just something that happens for us, the 10 of Swords is a decision we get to make. We're offered the choice to transform the way we think. We can choose to change but we can also choose to go back into the well-known spiral of the last few Swords cards and stay in a pattern of fear, strategy, limiting beliefs, and anxiety. It's up to us.
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Here the choice offered is just to believe that it can be different. Believe that your thoughts, your mind, your brain chemistry can change. This sets the mold for you to take action on your belief, and reach for better tools and ask for help when your brain starts taking you on this ride.
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Making this choice now doesn't mean that we'll never get into a cycle of overthinking or self-blame again, but that we'll have the tools to recognize it and make this choice again.
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Above all, be kind to yourself. This is a small step that will ripple outward.

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