Four of Swords (Reversed)…

You find yourself in a cryptic kind of rest. This is no sanctuary; it is a tomb you’ve mistaken for safety. It is the rattle of chains at midnight, the clawing of something inside you that refuses to stay dead.

This card, in its shadowed inversion, becomes a dark mirror reflecting the soul’s paralysis: the silence you’ve let fester into spiritual rot. It is a warning. You’ve lain too long in a sleep that no longer heals—a sleep that numbs, devours, and enslaves.

But here, the crow comes.

Not as a harbinger of doom, but as a forgotten guide.

The crow does not fear the night—it becomes it. Its wings slice through the darkness like blades through veil, calling you to rise from your stillness, to reclaim the movement that grief, fear, or comfort has stolen. This card dares you to abandon the stone bed you’ve built of regret and isolation. To fly—not away—but deeper. Into the shadow. Into your truth. Into the freedom only found when you surrender the illusion of peace and answer the cry of your untamed spirit.

"The crow perches not to rest, but to watch. It waits for the soul to stir."

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