Wands · Fire
King of Wandsfor Pisces · Self and Identity
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A king sits on a throne surveying his domain. Wands represent passion and the king card represents mastery and masculine energy. Typically the face cards represent a person/event (or a part of yourself embodied). Together this card means a a creative genius or visionary entrepreneur: they are passionate and quick to action as well as wise and demanding.
You have reached a level of success that allows you to guide others and execute on your passions/goals with authority (or are spending a lot of time with someone who has reached a high level of success/power). Romantically this can mean a more mature relationship built off of shared goals, or a bit of butting heads around things you are passionate about. This card signifies an entrepreneurial energy, you have started something important and are executing on it. Be honest and just with your power.
You have reached a high level of success/authority (or are interacting with someone that is high power). High power/authority has allowed for an entitled energy to bubble up. The demands being made are harsh and unreasonable and no one feels comfortable objecting. Perhaps this comes from a chip on the shoulder energy that got you to where you are, but is no longer serving you here. Investigate the roots of this overbearing energy and reign it into a healthy place.
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Where it shows up.
King of Wands for Pisces in Self and Identity
The Dreamer
Wands are the fire suit, so the King of Wands sits in Aries. Aries sits directly beside Pisces, the one relationship a sign cannot see clearly because it is too close to get any distance on. What it asks for is this: spend the energy on one thing today. The difficulty is noticing it is being asked at all. Upright, this is the element used out in the world, at the cost of still feeling it.
When reading about yourself through a Pisces lens, the King of Wands says that you feel like yourself is something you discover by watching how others react to you, your own thoughts are hard to locate because you're always sensing the room first, and clarity about who you are feels dangerous or impossible. This has either kept you fluid enough to move through difficult situations, or left you so uncertain that you remake yourself each time someone new arrives. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Pisces blind spot in it is the moment they have to stop being useful and admit they're drowning.
In practice that can look like wanting something again, or restlessness with a direction. Whatever form it takes, it is being decided by whoever holds the authority.
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