Two of Wands
Minor Arcana · Wands

Two of Wands

KeywordsPlanning, choices ahead, widening horizons

The picture · Bright face · Shadow · Way through

Every card has four faces: what the picture shows, the bright face it turns when the situation supports it, the shadow when the same root is overdone or stuck, and the way through that the picture itself draws.

The picture

From his battlement a man holds a globe, eyes on the sea

Bright face

Planning the next horizon; the view widening

Shadow

Hesitation held inside safe walls

Way through

The globe is already in hand — draw the route

As your card of the day

If Two of Wands is the first card you draw today, the day leans toward “Planning the next horizon; the view widening”. When it tips toward “Hesitation held inside safe walls”, remember the way the picture draws: The globe is already in hand — draw the route.

Read Waite's 1911 text and the correspondences

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