WANDS · VIII
Eight of Wands
Swift passage. Messages, travel, a thing that was stuck now moving at the speed of the element. Steer; do not stand in the path for sport.
- ELEMENT
- fire
- NUMBER
- Eight — work and mastery: eight staves in flight, heat as speed.
- SYMBOLS
- eight staves flying parallel, as if thrown by one will · a river and a house below, the ground the news will hit · clear air, nothing to snag the flight · a descending angle, arrival already implied
UPRIGHT
- +timely news
- +momentum that matches the work
- +alignment of many moving parts
- −haste that skips the body
- −a flood of messages with no one to receive them
- −mistaking speed for meaning
- IN LOVE
- A text, a trip, a sudden yes. Meet it. Do not invent a novel in the time it takes the stave to land.
- IN WORK
- Deadlines that are alive, shipments, a campaign in the air. Clear the landing ground.
- IN SELF
- You may be in a fast week. Keep one foot that can still feel the river.
REVERSED
The flight stalls in air, or everything arrives at once and the house cannot take it.
- Blocked — the upright current exists and is dammed.
- Excess — the current is overplayed.
Blocked Eight of Wands is delay, red tape, a message unsent. Excess is overwhelm: eight staves, no ground.
- PAIRS WELL WITH
- The ChariotThree of WandsThe MagicianEight of Pentacles
WHAT WE WILL NOT SAY ABOUT THIS PLATE
- things are about to move fast, get ready
- patience is overrated
- if it's meant to be it will be instant