Tarot #14: Queen of Wands, passion’s proud mistress and seeker of self-knowledge

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The Queen represents people who are fixed and unwavering devoted to their visions. If they name you friend, you will have none more loyal, unless you come between them and their goal.

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Their self-absorption makes them vulnerable to deception and leads them into ignorance of many obvious aspects of the world around them.

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Beware of their vengeance. If they decide that you have been disloyal to them, in their wrath, they will break their jaw to bite you.

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In the fire of forge, you must shape your heart into an instrument so fine and indestructible that it will lead you into your desire like a flaming arrow.

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“The Queen of Wands is a symbol of passionate participation in a complex creative enterprise. This endeavor may involve the coordination of a vast number or people (or possibly realms of activity: mind, body, emotions) who are all working for common pattern or goal. . . . You must find your role and play it creatively.”

Alexandra Genetti,  Wheel of Change Tarot

This Queen says,”Know yourself and use this knowledge to find your rightful place in the world,”

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Nobody messes with the Queen of Wands

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Tarot #13: XVI The Tower, break on through to the Other Side

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Break down the fortress of thine individual

Self, that thy Truth may spring free from the

ruins.

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Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth

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You have the power to break through imprisoning walls, making doorways into new possibilities or the power to destroy for destruction’s sake either way involves risk. The collapsing walls leave you open to the world or may bring a shower of stones upon your head, but life without risk is a prison of your own making. Destruction leaves space for creation as creation contains the destruction of what came before. The world is built upon layers of growth and devastation. In order to build anew the old structures must be cleared, the ground made ready for the seeds of what will be.

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The moment of devastation has arrived, crack of the whip, lash of lightning, the crumbling walls and all the prisoners released to the music of mayhem, and yet there is an opening in the world where barriers existed. If you can hunker down and outlast the aftershocks opportunities will present themselves to your awaiting mind.

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Things have fallen apart, disaster is upon you, and it seems as though there is no solid ground on which to stand. You must piece things together and make due facing the events that lead up to the disaster and taking a close look at your life to see what you can draw out of the fiery forge that will make you stronger and more capable moving on.

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The Eye of Shiva is Upon You

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Destruction or disaster is immanent and can only be avoided by a violent maneuver on your part that may bring about an equally devastating situation, but there is also a chance that the resulting damage may be mitigated by opportunities that will not be available if the original threat is allowed to proceed into reality.

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Tarot #12: I The Magus/Magician, the Flash of inspiration and the will to create

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Go forth and create your world guided by inspiration and drawing energy from the electricity of ideas in collision. Send your thoughts to the stars and listen for the reply and shout again the words that create themselves in your dreams. Explore the world rooting out it’s mysteries. Only the curious push at the walls of the world to expand our experience. Paint a door on the wall and step through into a new world.

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“no one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,”

Nietzsche

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Only creative acts brought forth from depths of experience bridge the gap between individuals. Only when we transform ourselves into the material of dreams do we enter the dreams of others.

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Magic is the power to perceive patterns and apply intuition in a manifest manner, to make the improbable appear, to see into the layers of reality and manipulate the world into one of its many forms and states.

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There are many phenomena which cannot be explained with our current knowledge. With persistence and energy we will figure out the mysteries. And, in finding the solutions to those problems, we will be inundated with a thousand new riddles underneath that which we uncover.

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The will and discipline to control powers and maintain focus and intellect with insight to create beauty in functional invention and technology and systems of knowledge.

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Tarot #11: X Fortune: What goes up must come down.

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What is first shall be last and the turning of the wheel brings low that which is high and raises that which is ground under. Opportunity favors those prepared to leap, but no matter how much you try to remain on top the wheel will turn as will all of the forces and matter of the universe. Learn the ways of the cycles and rhythms and be ready to ride. It is the only game in town whether you are up or down, every position on the wheel will move through the revolutions.Scan_20181211 (2)

Revolving always in cycles, gears within gears surrounded by whirling springs, the universe travels its course and we ride up as we slide down. You can control small bits of this life, the rest you leave to fate or worry. Fortuna will choose by a whim and you must make what you can of it.

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Tarot #10: the Princess/Page of Wands, the flame of spontaneous action free of fear

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This Princess has defeated fear and leaves it on the alter that the flame may light the way to the desired goal, bringing the tiger as a reminder of the power to move guided by instinct and fueled by passion as long as fear is left behind in the flames.

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Go forth and claim your place in the world. Create your own beauty. Let it burn brightly for all to see.

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With the energy of fire drawn from the earth and passion that dances in the heat and light, the Daughter of Flames burns brightly and yet is not consumed in the conflagration. There is a way to unfold yourself in a controlled explosion of desire that drives you toward your goal, but there can be no hesitation, no count down to ingnition.

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Whatever you do, or dream, you can begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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