Getting out of an egg is harder than it looks, which is why most birds and reptiles are born with an egg tooth, a sort of biological crowbar that assists in the process and then drops off.
Most Six of Swords cards show a departure of some kind. The inspired mind undergoes a harsh trial-and-error phase, testing its own boundaries and running up against some inescapable realities. The Six indicates your need or ability to leave all that behind, to make a fresh start with the aid of the wisdom you've accumulated during this rocky period. If you can bear to scrutinize the errors of the recent past, you'll see that they actually point the way forward. That's the very definition of "sadder but wiser."
Until it's hatched, everything a creature knows about the world relates to the interior of its shell. Once that shell is broken, the burden of ignorance is ours to do with what we wish, to carry only as far as we choose. Or, to quote Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde's biting social satire, The Importance of Being Earnest:
"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delecate, exotic fruit. Touch it, and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did it would prove a serious threat to the upper classes, and probably lead ot acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
Ignore Bracknell's disapproval -- consider the Six of Swords to be a whole mouthful of egg-teeth, and get to work on your own jailbreak. You can only revisit the lessons of the past so many times before they become redundant. A world of brand-new experiments, adventures, and tragedies awaits!
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