Minor ArcanaWands#5
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Five of Wands
Prepare for a fight with your best friend
Remember: once you let words loose, you can't take them back
Light
- Calmly expressing a dissenting opinion
- Allowing someone to use his or her own methods to get a job done
- Opening the floor for discussion or debate
- Comparing progress made so far to standards set earlier
Shadow
- Berating others for their ridiculous opinions
- Picking fights
- Offering destructive criticism
- Baiting people with barbed remarks
- Disrupting progress with an endless stream of pointless objections
Mystical Correspondences
Numerology
5 (The Catalyst: instability, resistance, confrontation)
Astrology
Saturn in Leo
Affirmation
"I can express dissent in constructive ways."
Questions to Ask
- 1.To what extent is your current issue worth fighting for?
- 2.What alternatives are there to outright conflict?
- 3.What happens in a "fair fight?" How can you keep this fight fair?
