Minor ArcanaWands#12
boldnessbravadopassionpersuasionadvocacy
Light
- Charging ahead
- Making rapid progress
- Refusing limits
- Dazzling those around you with your wit and charm
- Convincing others of your right to leadership
- Convincing others to follow you
- Being a catalyst for change
Shadow
- Blundering forward with inadequate skill or information
- Running roughshod over the feelings of others
- Using sex appeal to manipulate others
- Forcing your leadership or ideology on others
- Beginning many projects without finishing any
Veiled Correspondences
The rider leaps forward and the desert blooms in the wake. This card encodes the quest-pattern of the creative adventurer — fire in restless motion, passion given horse and horizon. Its esoteric threads bind the impulse for new experience to the flame that cannot stay still.
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Questions to Ask
Reflective questions inspired by this card
To what extent have you defined your ultimate goal?
When this card appears upright, it invites you to reflect on themes of charging ahead, making rapid progress, refusing limits. Consider how these energies manifest in your current situation.
What's the fastest way to get the job done? Is this necessarily the best way?
When this card appears upright, it invites you to reflect on themes of charging ahead, making rapid progress, refusing limits. Consider how these energies manifest in your current situation.
How long has it been since you looked back to see if others really are following your lead?
In its reversed position, this card asks you to examine blundering forward with inadequate skill or information, running roughshod over the feelings of others, using sex appeal to manipulate others. These shadow aspects may reveal areas for growth and deeper self-awareness.
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