Wands · Fire
Ace of Wandsfor Aquarius · Love and Relationships
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A hand issuing from a cloud grasps a wand above lush landscape. Wands represent passion and the ace represents the start of a new journey. Together this card represents a passionate vision or energy that sparks a new adventure.
You have the spark of an idea-- follow it! Lots of exciting energy is swirling around you, perhaps you just met someone new and are in the throws of a new relationship (or have found a new facet in someone you know well). Outside of romance, you have a business idea or project to pursue which is lighting a fire under you.
You are being held back from something you are passionate about-- perhaps because it will mean a change for you or perhaps you are afraid you might not achieve the vision. Either way, let the passion and creativity flow and make plans.
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Ace of Wands for Aquarius in Love and Relationships
The Visionary
Wands are the fire suit, so the Ace of Wands sits in Aries. Aries sextiles Aquarius, which is help that has to be taken up rather than help that arrives. What it asks for is this: spend the energy on one thing today. Aquarius is perfectly capable of that, which is exactly why not doing it needs a better excuse. An ace is a seed rather than a result. Upright it means the thing is genuinely available and completely untested.
When reading about relationships through an Aquarius lens, the Ace of Wands says that you feel like partnership is a thought experiment that demands your presence, a daily negotiation of needs (or boredom), and a place where your distance feels safer than your closeness. This has either meant you found someone who loves you from a distance too, or you are alone in a way that feels like a choice. The thing you're not saying out loud is the thing that matters most. The Aquarius blind spot in it is being ordinary, or worse, being needed in a way that pins them down.
In practice that can look like a fight with heat in it. Whatever form it takes, it is just arriving and has not been tested yet.
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