If Your Grit Is Being Tested This Summer, Read This — How To Make It Through Unscathed
If this summer has felt like a slow test of your resilience — the kind that doesn’t announce itself, just quietly wears you down — this is for you. What follows is a tarot reading not for a sign, but for anyone whose grit is being tested right now. Six positions. One honest read. Advice for making it through unscathed.
In Your Past — Nine of Swords
It’s strange to see the “nightmare card” here, but hear it: you’ve been in the worst, most toxic situation you could be in — and you’ve survived. You may not have been able to process the truth that you’ve already shown remarkable resilience and strength. Part of what got you through was denying, at least a little, the psychological and emotional damage you were taking on. That was a survival move. But by not acknowledging the challenges you’ve faced and the hurt you’ve endured, you’re missing a big part of your own truth. Let yourself see it now.
Working For You — Knight of Cups, Reversed
You’ve been playing things with your heart on your sleeve lately, and the sudden shift toward that kind of forthrightness has actually been working in your favor. You made some impassioned, impetuous moves — faster than you’re comfortable with, with less information than you usually need. That’s okay. When grit is being tested, hiding costs more than being seen does. Being honest about where you are is the thing pulling you forward.
Working Against You — Eight of Cups
Learning when to move on is one of the harder life lessons. There’s a whole name for what happens when we hold on to something just because we’ve put so much of ourselves into it — the sunk cost fallacy — and it is definitely working against you right now. Some of what’s testing your grit is that you’re spending it on something you already know you need to release. You’re not failing by considering leaving. You’re finally listening.
Your Thoughts — Seven of Pentacles
Somewhere inside, you already know that some things just take time — that often all we can give is our patience. That’s where your thoughts keep landing, even when you try to force a faster answer. Trust that quiet knowing. Not everything needs to be resolved this week. Some of what’s being tested is just your capacity to wait without collapsing.
Your Subconscious — Eight of Pentacles
Below the surface, you’re already aware of what it takes to build a skill — and that resilience is one of them. Processing and integrating difficult emotions and experiences works the same way anything you’ve ever learned did: slowly, imperfectly, with repetition. Be compassionate and gentle with yourself as you do it. The fact that this is hard isn’t proof you’re bad at it. It’s proof you’re actually doing it.
In Your Future — The Star
Here is the card, and here is the promise: your experiences during this personal gauntlet are going to teach you how to find hope even when things seem their darkest. Hope will lead you to renewal and healing. As you process what you’ve been through, hope will also open up new possibilities you couldn’t see from inside the storm. You aren’t going to come out of this the same. You’re going to come out of it more yourself. That is what making it through unscathed actually means — not that nothing touched you, but that nothing that touched you got to keep you.