Two of Wands
The Two of Wands represents outward success paired with inner discontent and spiritual emptiness, indicating a divided mind and dissatisfaction despite appearances. It points to small successes, mastery over situations, careful planning, and contemplating new enterprises while one’s heart or head may be elsewhere. Reversed, it signals lingering, deep-rooted dissatisfaction, resignation, failed endeavors, and the harm of prioritizing appearances over personal needs. The card urges honoring true motivations and pursuing one’s purpose and passion to obtain the missing ingredient for happiness, success, or spiritual growth.
Keywords
Description
Discontent; outward success but inner unhappiness; not liking one's circumstances or current fate; a spiritual emptiness; the mind is elsewhere; dissatisfaction; division of thought or purpose; a divided mind; appearing to have it all yet feeling unfulfilled; a small success that leaves one feeling empty and disillusioned; having the power to make changes but choosing instead to brood over what is lacking; mastery over a situation; a successful business endeavor or journey; setting goals; careful planning; contemplating new enterprises; staying the course while knowing that one's head or heart is elsewhere.
Reversed
Lingering, deep-rooted dissatisfaction; resignation; putting one's own needs and desires as a last priority in order to retain an appearance of success or to perpetuate a mock benevolence; a failed endeavor; a divided house cannot stand; a lack of personal fulfillment can no longer be ignored; a contradiction in a person's actions and thoughts gets the better of them; a key ingredient necessary for happiness, success, or spiritual growth will be obtained through honoring one's true motivations.
Magickal Uses
Useful in magick aimed at goal setting or finding your true purpose and passion in life. Use in ritual and meditation to represent yourself when you are feeling dissatisfied and know you need something more but you're not sure what that something is. Reversed, use to bring failure to unsavory projects or to cause undesirable ideas and plans to be abandoned.
Visual Description
A man sits on a tree stump between two upright staves, his hands tied by rope to the posts while he calmly holds a small blue bird on his outstretched finger. He wears a brown cap and tunic with striped breeches, and a yellow symbol is visible on his sleeve. Autumn trees with red and orange foliage frame a grassy landscape beneath a bright sky of scattered clouds, and the title 'Two of Wands' appears on a banner at the bottom.
Modern Spellcasters tarot
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