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By Sarah Taylor
You are taking something on — psychically, energetically, creatively. This isn’t a tangible burden that you experience with your five senses, but you’ll be feeling it nonetheless — either explicitly or implicitly. And carrying it is your choice, even if perhaps the load isn’t entirely yours. There is assistance from outside, but you first need to approach it. Some approaches will be more effective than others.
Today’s reading resonates with a fiery charge. Yes, we have two swords in the equation — which represent thought and intellectual analysis — but the focus is predominantly on something far less tangible. Wands, as I mention in the introduction, are psychic, energetic, creative. They seek expression, and yet we are so often fearful of the form of that expression, and what it might mean for us, that we repress it. But wands, by their very nature, cannot be repressed, which leaves us with the options of working with them consciously, or unconsciously.
The next two things that strike me are that there are single figures in all three cards, and the skies are clear: there is no external interference that is relevant here. The conflict and/or sense of oppression comes from within; the attempt to apply logic where logic is ineffective comes from within; the solution comes from within. Key to this idea is the Seven of Wands: what rises up from beneath. This is the fight to keep something in control that is seeking expression, or at least recognition. It might be as yet unconscious, but there are hints of it. It might come out in other ways, but it is asking to be acknowledged.