Wands · Fire
Eight of Wandsfor Capricorn · Work and Career
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The card represents motion through the immovable-a flight of wands through an open country; but they draw to the term of their course. Wands represents passion and eight represents movement/cycles. Together this card represents a kind of flow state achieved by being in tune with the universe and moving with it instead of against it.
You are especially receptive to fate and kismet. A bunch of connected events are helping guide you towards your end goal. Perhaps you are invited to go to a woodworking class, at that class you make a new friend and that new friend introduces you to their brother (who is coincidentally the love of your life). Be open to moving quickly and saying yes to things. Follow your passions and joy and don't be afraid to let the universe take the wheel.
Things are not flowing smoothly-- you are having a hard time finishing a task or finding the next one to start. Perhaps a trip got cancelled or a project is delayed. Don't be too frustrated, take this as a sign to slow down and enjoy the small wonders of life. Reconnect with your passions and loved ones.
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Eight of Wands for Capricorn in Work and Career
The Architect
Wands are the fire suit, so the Eight of Wands sits in Aries. Aries squares Capricorn, so the card asks for the move Capricorn is least fluent in: spend the energy on one thing today. The friction is the content, not an obstacle to it. Upright, the work is available, and it is repetitive rather than dramatic.
When reading about work through a Capricorn lens, the Eight of Wands says that you feel like work is where you prove you are worth keeping around, a problem you solve by solving more problems, and the only place that keeps score in a way you trust. This has either led to building something real and durable that outlasts you or to becoming so necessary that leaving would feel like abandonment. You have not asked yourself what you actually want from this work, only what you think you should want from it. The Capricorn blind spot in it is being useless, being a burden, being the person who could not hold it together.
In practice that can look like wanting to quit. Whatever form it takes, it is going to take unglamorous repetition.
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