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By Sarah Taylor
A doorway stands open, inviting you to something that, until now, you have only witnessed from afar. The resistance you feel to this is not inconsiderable, yet the choice to fight, stay put, or to move depends on no-one but you.
We’re back to all minor arcana this week — moreso focused on the way something is expressed through the details of day-to-day life — although no less significant.
This is not a reading about matters intellectual or physical: there are no Swords or Pentacles. It is a reading that is focussed on the visceral, on desire, on the drive to create, and on feelings. Two Wands, one Cup. Fire, and water. Not, on the surface, complementary elements. So this is about the tension that the juxtaposition creates, and perhaps the necessity to let them co-exist as individual entities rather than seeking a resolution through their unification. Rather, it is the holding of that tension itself that is the resolution — the middle path between the two, acknowledging both.
The Four of Wands is making a repeat appearance here. As previously, this is about being on the outside looking in, but with the ability to step through the doorway created by the four wands and to join in.
This is something beckoning to you that you don’t feel you belong to, but which has been holding a place for you, if only you were to recognise that you are as welcome as anyone else you can see there. In fact, you aren’t just welcome: you are wanted. The two figures in the middle distance seem to be waving at you, acknowledging your presence, holding in their hands symbols of growth and abundance, inviting you through.
The wands themselves denote that fiery passion that drives all acts of creation and expression — anything, in fact, that you feel you have been brought here to do, even if you feel it is beyond your abilities right now to bring it into being. Here, they stand at the threshold of that sense of belonging. To step through them is an act of initiation — initiation in its broadest sense. There doesn’t have to be pomp and ceremony, and you don’t have to be an artist, a poet or a writer to nurture your creative spirit. This is the calling to express yourself in a way that aligns with what your soul knows you came here to do. Even if you have little or no idea of what that could be, a door is open — and it is a door that doesn’t close.