Jan 3, 2010 Horoscope
History: Two of Wands
Main (positional) meaning | General | Position
You may be held back from realizing your full potential until you closely examine the family patterns you inherited.
The card in the History position points to influences from your personal history, your roots and background.
The Two of Wands in this position suggests long experience with procrastinators who could have been giants. This is not a condemnation; there are often legitimate reasons why perfectly capable people do not realize their full potential. This sets you up, however, to stall or distract yourself at a potentially fruitful point, due to a tendency within your subconscious which works against fully completing a desire or dream.
There are families in which it would be a disaster to achieve a higher social class than your parents or grandparents, and those families undermine opportunities for their children's success. You must turn around in your own tracks, look behind you and see if this kind of situation applies to your background. It's not easy, but such tendencies can be rectified.
Recent Events: Knight of Wands
Main (positional) meaning | General | Position
Commit to memory an understanding of how confidence and optimism are for those times when you lose courage.
The card in the Recent Events position refers to events that are just departing, recently influential but now diminishing in power
The Knight of Wands (in some decks, a Prince) in this position directs you to imagine or remember what it's like to experience all the resolve, inspiration and high expectations of a triumphal crusade during which you felt like a winner.
Store those feelings of confidence and optimism for times when your energy is low and you feel like you are losing the courage of your convictions. Describe the feelings in a journal, make a collage, distill them into a key word, do whatever it takes to get a handle on that energy when you need it, no matter what the circumstances. This skill will provide very strong support when a situation becomes challenging.
The Present: Queen of Swords
Main (positional) meaning | General | Position
This is a good time to assert your individuality. Others must step aside as you step forward.
The card in the Present position reflects an aspect of who you are right now, as you present yourself to the Tarot experience.
When the Queen of Swords comes up in this position, it is a time to become more autonomous. This queen has learned through challenging experience that she should be her own best friend. She doesn't need to be rescued, "helped" or condescended to. As such, it's time to set boundaries as you move your emotional and psychic center back to yourself.
In the old tradition, the Queen of Swords was stigmatized as being unwanted, a woman who had outlived her usefulness to a man. Nowadays wise and independent people with maturity are better appreciated; now we celebrate her as a self-defined individual and understand her as a person who owns herself. She fosters no dependencies because she craves none. In this way she is freer to move in the world unencumbered by the entangling expectations of others. It's time to become less available to other people's whims. Strike out on your own. Win or lose on your own merits.
Near Future: Seven of Coins
Main (positional) meaning | General | Position
When you feel a lack of confidence, choose to be optimistic and trust that you will get the help you need.
The card in the Near Future position indicates which way the wind is blowing with regard to your situation.
When the Seven of Coins falls in this position, it reveals either a lack of confidence in either yourself or in Nature's abundance. You have forgotten how Nature can multiply a handful of seeds into tons of fruit.
Do not fear -- if the outcome of your dreams depended solely on your efforts, you might fail, but it does not. You have the ability to find a way to harness the power of Nature to support your dream, so choose to be optimistic. Trust that you will get the help you need. Nature is happy to support and assist those who trust in Her and work with Her. When you learn Her ways and serve them, you realize you are never alone.
Far Future: Three of Swords
Main (positional) meaning | General | Position
Recognize the part you play in your own setbacks.
This card in the Far Future position points to unknowns still taking shape. It is the "wild card" yet to be played.
With the Three of Swords in this position, it may take a season or two to assimilate the implications of all that has happened, before you can again feel safe to welcome new relationships. Study the pattern of unfortunate events as they unfolded before -- review how you drew the situation into your life, how you let yourself be swept along, how you were drawn toward a familiar, inevitable failure.
Examine your relationship pattern closely to see how you continue it. Until you fathom your tendency to invite such events into your life, you will not be free of this particular pain. Get ready to study these issues for a while; examining them closely with an eye to your own responsibility.