Three of Swords, Fairy Tale Tarot

Separation or leaving something can induce feelings of loss, or even grief or emotional pain.

Even if it's a rather 'natural moving on'. A friend's departure after a visit, or 'going home' from a similar thing, or a journey/trip.

A key here is to neither avoid the feelings nor get swallowed by them.
The feelings are probably 'enlarged' because they trigger some sort of trauma in us.
It might be the separation in itself, or the sense of loneliness that appears after the separation or when we enter our own house again. A sense of 'what did just happen?' A system in 'shock' - one moment we were laughing and having fun, and suddenly it's 'all quiet'.
For some reason it's not just 'back to business'. What used to be 'ordinary life' suddenly feels empty?

Why is it that some trips/visits/connections trigger these kinds of feelings and others don't?
That's something to contemplate!

Maybe not 'in the middle of it', at least not if were easy swayed by thought patterns.
That kind of thinking were you 'make up stories about the hurt/loss/pain' - try to 'make them make sense'.
'Making sense of it' is not what our system needs most!
'Feeling the feelings' is much higher on the list.
Feeling without judging. Especially without calling/naming the feelings 'bad' (and trying to come up with stories to make them go away).
Not 'running away' - heading for something/someone to numb the feelings, or distract ourselves from the feelings.

Whatever is going on it's a perfectly natural part of life!
Even Fairy Tales have 'less funny twists' in their plots :)

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