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By Sarah Taylor
In moments when you feel resistant, defensive, shut down, ask yourself whether the cause is really coming from ‘out there’, or whether this feeling is one that seems to rise up from inside — and which seems to have a certain familiarity to it. There is something else on offer to you right now. If you take it, there is a flow of creativity that you can align with. Making the most of it means using your powers of awareness and focused action.
What’s going on here? The first thing that I see, given that our natural eye movement is from left to right, is that there seems to be standoff – one fraught with tension.
A man, head bandaged, eyes up eight wands that line up behind him with some suspicion. He seems defensive, hurt, and possessive of the ninth wand that he holds as if keeping it away from the wands at his back — keeping it close to his chest, across his heart. There is little trust here. The wands dwarf him; he seems somewhat corralled. It is the first time that I have looked at this card and seen a parallel with the Eight of Swords, where a woman — also bandaged — is surrounded by a screen of swords, seemingly unable to extricate herself.