Wands · Fire
Knight of Wandsfor Scorpio · Work and Career
"Passion isn't the question. What you do next is."
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A knight on an adventure, armed with a short wand. Wands represent passion and knights represent quests. Together this card represents a quest/adventure to embark on. Typically the face cards represent a person/event (or a part of yourself embodied).
You are on a quest of some kind to follow your own passion/creative energy. You are acting quickly and decisively as if a knight on a horse running across the countryside. Perhaps you are traveling and meeting new and exciting people (or going back to school again). Romantically, a figure might be entering your life and bringing you inspiration and motivation. Things maybe moving quickly (a touch of love bombing), but sometimes that is just part of the journey.
Your plans are interrupted and perhaps you are being blocked in the pursuit of your goal (travel delays, self doubt over the goal, etc). Romantically/interpersonally you are fighting with someone important to you and it's making you doubt the relationship. Perhaps you wanted to buy a house together but now you are unsure if you even want to live in the same city. Doubt is normal, and so is fear. Listen to your inner voice to understand what to do.
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Knight of Wands for Scorpio in Work and Career
The Transformer
Wands are the fire suit, so the Knight of Wands sits in Aries. Aries and Scorpio are quincunx, two signs with nothing in common: no shared element, mode, or polarity. This card will not slot neatly into how Scorpio already operates. What it wants is this: spend the energy on one thing today. It has to be done deliberately or it will not happen. Upright, this is the element at full speed with nothing slowing it down.
When reading about work through a Scorpio lens, the Knight of Wands says that you feel like work is where you need to know the financial truth before anyone else does, a problem to solve (or a power to hold), and something you will not announce until you are certain. This has either led to you becoming the person who understands the money and the leverage, or to you refusing to enter the room where decisions are made. You have not asked yourself what you actually want from this work, only what you think you should want from it. The Scorpio blind spot in it is the feeling of being fooled, or of being seen as naive, or of depending on someone who will leave.
In practice that can look like a new role or project. Whatever form it takes, it arrives fast and without brakes.
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