By Sarah Taylor
Reflection. Aspiration. Art.
Today’s reading hinges on the card at the centre, which I picked first: the Four of Wands. The Four of Wands has a watershed quality to it. It stands in contrast to the card on the left, the Two of Worlds — a fiery and earthy complement to its icy, lunar neighbour.
The Two of Worlds marks a time of things seeming to lie dormant. As its title suggests, it represents an environment for inner reflection, where nothing moves quickly but where life is waiting, biding its time.
The two Moons denote the idea of intuition, the starry sky evocative of inner space as well as outer. The comet, interestingly, is also a reflection of the appearance of a comet in our own skies this past week. This seems to anchor the reading in a specific time frame, the Two of Worlds being something that is just passing, making way for the Four of Wands, then Art.
With this movement comes a thawing and a warming — from the snow-covered mountains and the barrenness of the Moon, to the fire and storms of a landscape that bursts with life. As we move from the Two of Earth to the Four of Wands, the imagery also moves from one that is wholly nature-based, to one that is a mix of the natural and the man-made.