By Sarah Taylor
The elements at play in this week’s three-card reading are fire and water — and the message is indeed a little steamy. Having noted that, it is also worth noting what steam is able to achieve: locomotion, or the act of moving from one place to another.
Here, it is a movement from the Two of Wands to the Three of Cups, via Lust, who acts as intermediary.
At left, the Two of Wands is a suitable initiatory power to be setting the reading into motion. If the Ace of Wands is potential energy — in other words, energy that has yet to be drawn down and incarnated on Earth — then the Two is what happens when it is transferred into the human realm and we get to work with it.
Because Two of Wands energy is close to source energy, it is fiery, and more ‘slippery’ to manage. It is less dense; it burns brightly. It can be harnessed, but it takes discipline and experience to make the most of it, and to ensure that no-one, or nothing, is unintentionally burned in the process.
Summed up in a few words, the Two of Wands represents will that we can direct. It is forceful, authoritative, creative, masculine. Have a look at the card and you’ll see what I mean: the wands themselves are red, vivid, set against spiralled rods of flame. In the background, however, we have blue. This to me signifies the presence of a coolness that is needed to work with it to greatest effect. Not cool as in cold, but as in level-headed.