26/04/2026
Card 3 - If I do nothing, then...
Nine of Air
It started with one hornet. It appeared one night while the fairy slept. It buzzed around, threatening to sting the poor creature, keeping the fairy on edge and awake throughout the night. The following night there were two, the next night three, and so on. They went over in their all the things they could have done; all the wrong decisions made that brought the swarm to torment them so ruthlessly.
At night when it is time to sleep, the anticipation of the arrival of the hornets keeps them on guard and unable to rest their eyes. The stronger the fear and anxiety they feel, the faster they arrive. The worrying itself makes the fear and anxiety worse! What the exhausted fairy doesn't realise is that each hornet just wants to be acknowledged. To rid themself of the pests, all they need to do is address each one by it's name.
The Nine of Air brings a tornado of fear and anxiety; it is the energy that will keep you wide awake at night, focused on all the things going wrong. At the same time, a cloudy "night-brain" doesn't provide any clear solutions for dealing with the problem that is keeping you up. You may find yourself up in the middle of the night asking yourself if you did everything right, did you take care of pressing issues? Come daytime, however, all worry and stress becomes just a memory of a rotten nights sleep with no actions taken to resolve the issue. Then comes the next night, and sure enough, the same worries surface. With unresolved problems comes a new set of concerns, as guilt and blame jump in, making that tornado of negative thoughts potent.
When the Nine of Air appears, you may want to consider if you are creating undue anxiety bynot addressing the source of unhappiness. Perhaps you are giving a situation more power than it deserves by overthinking a problem, resulting in unnecessary stress? Are you fretting so much over something to the point that you attract the issue you wish to avoid?
Please only take what resonates with you. β¨οΈ
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