Current Influences

Four of Wands

Peace and security follow in the wake of the Four of Wands, usually in the smaller aspects of your life. Do not let the limited scope bring you to underestimate the joy that simple successes can bring, however: This is a card of good endings and fresh starts. Its presence should be welcome if you are beginning a new relationship or a new phase of one, such as marriage or engagement, and is especially good for those about to move residences.

Key interpretations:

  • Celebrations and happiness
  • Completion
  • Harmony
  • New beginnings
  • Pleasure

In this position, the card reveals:

Some creative victory is near at hand.

Obstacles

Knight of Wands

The Knight of Wands is a maverick's card, and it may be associated with you if you are prone to spontaneity, or shifting your positions quickly. This may lead some to see you as capricious, but most will enjoy your energy. This card can also signify change for you, likely in the form of travel, or a change in your environment. Beware, it may well happen suddenly!

Key interpretations:

  • Challenging
  • Determination
  • Foreign travel
  • Leader
  • Unpredictability

In this position, the card reveals:

You will make a sudden decision, and it may result in a long journey or a permanent move.

Past Foundations

Three of Wands

If you can manage to consistently bring your creativity and inventiveness to the table, then the Three of Wands brings good news. You are about to enter a time where your potential for productivity and accomplishment is very favourable. Keep your eyes open for new career opportunities and your mind open to new possibilities. The rewards these new opportunities bring, however, will take some time. You will need to be patient and stick around for the long haul. Also, look for new allies, as any new undertakings will be most successful if undertaken as partnerships.

Key interpretations:

  • Achievement
  • Fresh starts
  • Long-term success
  • Partnerships
  • Trade

In this position, the card reveals:

You have laid a good foundation for a successful enterprise.

Past Events

The Moon

Something in your life is not what it seems. Perhaps a misunderstanding on your part, or a truth you cannot admit to yourself. It may also indicate something important being kept from you by another. This may be a source of worry or depression in your life, and the Moon is a strong indicator that you must rely on your intuition to see through the deceit.

Key interpretations:

  • Be careful
  • Caution
  • Confusion
  • Delusion
  • Risk

In this position, the card reveals:

Your life has been in flux recently, and that uncertainty colours your current reality.

Goals and Destiny

Six of Cups

The Six of Cups is rooted deep in the past, but it is also a card closely bound to your happiness. It suggests that your family, your old friends, perhaps even past lovers, are in the process of adding greatly to the joys in your life. This card may also refer to past efforts, labours of love, and personal projects rewarding you, usually in an emotional sense, rather than financial.

Key interpretations:

  • Apology
  • Past associations
  • Reconciliation
  • Reminiscent
  • Return

In this position, the card reveals:

Dreams you had thought were long dead will be given new life and their pursuit will shape your future.

Future

The World

The World is an indicator of a major and inexorable change, of tectonic breadth. This change represents a chance for you to bring about a desirable end to the Old and a good beginning to the New. It is indicative of growing maturity, a sense of inner balance and deeper understanding. It suggests that you may be approaching a more final sense of identity, and the security in the self that comes with age. It also represents the falling away of boundaries, sometimes in the effusive sense of the spiritual, but sometimes in a purely physical sense, indicating travels or journeys in the future.

Key interpretations:

  • Certainty
  • Completion
  • Positive
  • Reward
  • Satisfaction

In this position, the card reveals:

For a dream to come true, you must create it. In the time ahead, find your dream, and you will make it a reality.

The Querant (you)

Ten of Swords

The Ten of Swords is a cause for fear for any who believe in the power of the cards, and you should prepare yourself for whatever it suggests. It is one of many cards which can represent disaster, but unlike the others, this card predicts a disaster which cannot be avoided. It foretells not only a complete failure but an unavoidable one. What is more, the failure will not be small or easily overcome. This is not a fortune to be changed or avoided, only endured. If you stay strong, new dreams can be built from the ashes.

Key interpretations:

  • End
  • Failure
  • Mortality
  • New hope
  • Ruin

In this position, the card reveals:

You should seek out spiritual help to handle the loss you have not yet resolved.

Friends and Family

The Chariot

You have some hard work ahead of you. It may be resolved quickly, but the Chariot is a powerful card, and the labor you are undertaking will probably trend towards the long and difficult. You will quite possibly experience rough roads, long uphill slopes, dead ends, and painful setbacks. A good outcome is only assured if the card is upright, but do not let yourself lose hope: This hard road will instil in you a strength of purpose, the ability to succeed through organization and endurance, and the confidence possessed only by those who have done what they thought they could not. Harnessed correctly, few forces can stand against an individual like that.

Key interpretations:

  • Journey
  • Progression
  • Strong character
  • Success from effort
  • Transportation and movement

In this position, the card reveals:

You will overcome opposition from others, decisively.

Hopes, Fears, and Ideals

Five of Swords

This card indicates conflict in your life. Worse yet, it is closely associated with defeat. It is likely that the defeat will be traumatic, and you will need to retreat and regroup. You may have suffered injury to your pride or self-esteem, but the Five of Swords is also a warning of a potential to get caught in the cycle. Handle defeat with grace, move on, and success will come to you.

Key interpretations:

  • Conflict
  • Defeat
  • Loss
  • Low self-esteem
  • Separation

In this position, the card reveals:

You will have the chance to secure a temporary victory through force, but you will risk lasting humiliation in the process.

The Final Outcome

Death

Death is indicative of change in your future. This change can be in almost any aspect of your life, but it will almost certainly be permanent, significant, and absolute. Death suggests a complete severance between the past and the future, and it could potentially be painful. Despite the sense of loss that may accompany it, Death fills an important and natural role in life, and leads eventually to acceptance. It is a necessary part of moving forward, and you will find the changes easiest if you embrace them, rather than fight them. Expect the end of a close friendship, a job, a marriage, or something else significant - but do not focus too greatly on the negative. Look for the silver lining, and opportunities to grow. This is not a card to be afraid of because it leads to new beginnings.

Key interpretations:

  • End
  • New beginning
  • Loss
  • Dramatic change
  • Destruction

In this position, the card reveals:

What is past will be left behind, and the best of your life still lies on the horizon. Enjoy the journey until your very end.