Crossing Waters, Wearing Masks

Pour yourself some tea—or something stronger—and let’s look at what the cards have to say this week (this weekly feature will soon become available only to subscribers, so don’t miss a post and subscribe today!).

The 6 of Swords from the Light Seer’s Tarot sets the tone: a passage across troubled waters. It’s the card of transition, of leaving behind stormy seas in search of calmer shores. It doesn’t deny the weight of what’s been endured, but it offers a lantern’s glow of hope—there is another side.

The oracle cards deepen this story. First comes Cindy Sherman from the Art Oracles deck, a master of shifting identity, of playing with masks and personas until truth itself feels slippery. Then, fittingly, we draw The Mask from Kim Krans’s Wild Unknown Archetypes. Together, they whisper: the masks we wear can hide us, protect us, or even liberate us. Sometimes disguise is a shield. Other times it’s a trickster’s tool.

And maybe that’s exactly what we need right now. The world is heavy with headlines, violence, and uncertainty. The temptation is to let despair root itself deep in our bones. But the cards nudge us toward something different—toward movement, toward invention, toward good mischief.

The 6 of Swords asks us to keep paddling. Even when the waters are thick with grief, movement carries us forward. The Mask reminds us that sometimes it’s okay to cloak ourselves—whether in ritual, in art, or in humor—as we gather strength. And Cindy Sherman gives us permission to be fluid, to try on a new way of seeing and being, to subvert expectation just by refusing to stay fixed.

This week, the collective invitation is to outwit the darkness. If the news feels unbearable, take up the role of the trickster-healer: write a poem under an alias, plant sunflowers in a vacant lot, sing at the top of your lungs on your morning commute. These small acts of mischief are not a denial of sorrow—they are lanterns, helping us cross the waters together.

The storm isn’t gone, darlings. But neither is our capacity to surprise it with love, with art, with play.

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