Three of Brushes

Tarot: Wednesday, September 30

A card drawn from one of three decks

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Three of Brushes

The Tarot of Beijing
Three of Brushes

Three hard brushstrokes on paper, and the heart takes them like blades. The Three of Brushes is the Three of Swords in the deck's own idiom: pain delivered in writing, a letter, a message, words sent that struck with precision. Today something written lands badly, or you are about to write it. If the words arrive, feel them properly and do not reply for a day; a wound answered at once is a second wound. If the words are yours to send, put the brush down and read them aloud first. The card is not about avoiding the truth, only the difference between three strokes and a slash.

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For your star sign

The same reading, taken through each sign of the zodiac.

Aries

You will reply to the message in the same minute. Do not. Today the reply is a second wound, and the first one needs a day before you can see it clearly.

Taurus

You will hold the hurt for a season. Today read the letter once, feel it, and put it in a drawer. The three strokes are precise, and precision does not need to be reread.

Gemini

The words that wound today may be yours. Read them aloud before sending. The Three of Brushes is the difference between saying the true thing and cutting with it.

Cancer

This card lands hardest on you. Today let it land, and then look at what was actually written rather than what it felt like. Three strokes are fewer than a page.

Leo

The letter wounds your pride first and your heart second. Today attend to the second. The pride heals by itself; the heart needs the day the card is asking for.

Virgo

You will correct the wounding message's grammar. Today feel it instead. The three strokes were precise, and precision is not the same as being right.

Libra

You will draft the fair reply. Today no reply. The Three of Brushes asks for a day between the wound and the answer, and fairness needs the day more than the draft.

Scorpio

You will keep the letter and reread it for years. Read it once today. The card is three strokes, not a scroll, and the rereading is what turns them into a scar.

Sagittarius

You will send the honest message and call the wound their problem. Today read it aloud first. Honesty with three strokes is a truth; honesty with a slash is just a slash.

Capricorn

You will file the wound and carry on. Today do not file it. The card asks for feeling before function, and the function survives a day of it.

Aquarius

You will analyse why the words hurt. Today let them. The Three of Brushes is a heart taking the strokes, and the analysis is a way of not having a heart in the room.

Pisces

Every message wounds you today. Check which one actually did. The card is three specific strokes, and your job is to find them and leave the rest alone.

For your Chinese animal

The same reading, taken through each animal of the Chinese zodiac.

Rat

You will read the message for the angle behind it. Today read it for what it says. The three strokes are exact, and the angle is a way of not feeling them.

Ox

You will bear the letter in silence for a month. Today say aloud that it hurt, once, to one person. The card is pain in writing; the answer is pain in speech.

Tiger

You will answer the wound with a wound. Today wait a day. The Three of Brushes is answered by nothing at all for twenty-four hours, and then by something short.

Rabbit

You will assume the message meant worse than it said. Today read the actual strokes. Three is a small number, and the card is precise about it.

Dragon

The letter offends you and offence is not the feeling underneath. Today find the feeling. The strokes were aimed at the heart, and the pride is standing in front of it.

Snake

You will keep the wounding message as evidence. Today keep it as a wound. The card asks for feeling, not for a file, and the evidence can wait.

Horse

You will leave rather than read the letter. Read it today, once, standing still. Three strokes are survivable and the leaving is not the same as healing.

Goat

You will apologise for the wound you received. Do not. Today the three strokes were someone else's brush, and the feeling is yours without the fault.

Monkey

You will make the wounding message into a joke by evening. Today let it be a wound until tomorrow. The joke is fine on Thursday; today it is a way of not reading.

Rooster

You will reply with corrections. Today reply with nothing. The Three of Brushes is answered by a day of silence, and the corrections are a second letter you will regret.

Dog

The message wounds someone you love and you will strike back on their behalf. Today do not. Sit with them and the letter; the second wound helps nobody.

Pig

You will soothe the wound with comfort and not look at it. Today look. Three strokes, precisely placed; see where they landed before you cover them.

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