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By Sarah Taylor
When you feel trapped and overwhelmed by your thoughts and feelings, know that support is there for you. It is a sense of self that emanates from within, and which connects you to everything and everyone else. You are doing your best; and your best is good enough.
How many times have we had the Six of Wands in our Weekend Tarot Reading? Enough for it to be markedly significant — to have our attention drawn to it for more than a fleeting moment.
I feel that this is a message to us: that in spite of everything that we might believe, or that we might look at to prove otherwise, we are doing well. In fact, we are doing our very best; and it is good enough. We are good enough. Apart from the people in the background in the Six of Wands, the main figures in all three cards are alone. This doesn’t mean that we sit at the centre of the universe, and that nothing else matters. Rather, it speaks of a period where we are withdrawn from the world while we are called to deal with our inner lives.
The Six of Wands is about recognition for something — although even here a sense of separateness is palpable: of the faces we can just about see in the small crowd flanking him, only one seems to be directed towards the rider. It’s not that they have no interest in what he is doing. It just seems that there are other things that are demanding their attention. It is the rider’s own comportment that suggests a mood of celebration more than anything else. Yes, the wands around him are raised; yes, the skies are blue and the colours bright. Yes, there is acknowledgement from an outside source — otherwise there would be no need for a parade in the first place. However, if we look at the rider, it is he who embodies a sense of victory: he sits upright on his horse, chest out, shoulders back; he is the one who bears two laurel wreaths; it is on his wand that the red ribbon is tied.