Wands · Fire
Seven of Wandsfor Gemini
"Perseverance isn't the question. What you do next is."
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A young man on a craggy eminence brandishing a staff; six other staves are raised towards him from below. Wands represents passion and the seven card represents agency. Together this card represents holding your ground on the subjects you feel passionate about. It's a challenge to your goal and your battle to continue towards that goal.
You are being challenged from an unexpected foe-- perhaps your have realized your pay is not comparable to others in your role, or you need to give feedback to your partner about how they are treating you, or a close friend has told you something in confidence you are struggling to accept. You must face these challenges and handle them with dignity and grace.
You're feeling of indignation and defensiveness is getting the best of you, causing you to lash out and not take the feedback you need to hear. Perhaps someone is challenging something you are very insecure about. Take a step back when you feel anger guiding your words. Try to understand what is at the root of your pain and unpack that topic instead. If you want to maintain the relationship with the challenger, speak to them and figure out a solution.
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Seven of Wands for Gemini
The Communicator
Gemini is an Air mutable sign ruled by Mercury, whose natural subject is talk, siblings, short trips, the daily traffic of information. Wands are the fire suit, so the Seven of Wands sits in Aries. Aries sextiles Gemini, 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. Gemini is perfectly capable of that, which is exactly why not doing it needs a better excuse. Gemini is mutable: it adapts, and this card is in the middle, where adapting can quietly become avoiding. Fire and Air feed each other, so this card's logic will feel natural here. Natural is not the same as correct. Upright, the assessment is being made alone, which is where it is easiest to be wrong.
Keep the thread
Artemis remembers what you asked, and tells you when something comes back around.
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