Wands · III
Three of Wands
The ships have left. First harvest of a venture: expansion, collaboration, the view after the plan. Stay on the cliff long enough to receive, not to micromanage the wind.
- ELEMENT
- fire
- NUMBER
- Three — first harvest: ships on the water, the merchant's wait that is already work.
- SYMBOLS
- a figure on a rise watching three ships, trade already in motion · three planted staves, a small grove of will · a sea under a yellow sky, waiting that is not empty · a cloak and circlet, the first public face of an enterprise
UPRIGHT
- +foresight that has already risked something
- +partnership across distance
- +the satisfaction of a beginning that became traffic
- −watching instead of docking
- −overextending into too many seas
- −pride in the view that forgets the crew
- IN LOVE
- A bond going further than the first heat. Distance, waiting, news. Trust the ships you actually launched.
- IN WORK
- Early results, markets opening, a team. This is not yet the wreath of the Six; it is the honest middle of launching.
- IN SELF
- You are allowed to stand in a success that is still wet. Do not abandon the cliff for a new spark out of boredom.
REVERSED
Ships delayed, or too many hulls for one merchant. The wait curdles into doubt, or the expansion has no harbor.
- Blocked — the upright current exists and is dammed.
- Excess — the current is overplayed.
Blocked Three of Wands is a launch with no follow-through. Excess is empire-brain: more ships than the cliff can watch.
- PAIRS WELL WITH
- Two of WandsEight of WandsThree of PentaclesWheel of Fortune
- TENSES WITH
- Four of CupsSeven of SwordsTen of Wands
WHAT WE WILL NOT SAY ABOUT THIS PLATE
- your ship is coming in
- think bigger, always
- waiting means you failed