Wands · Fire
Six of Wandsfor Capricorn · Money and Wealth
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A laurelled horseman bears one staff adorned with a laurel crown; footmen with staves are at his side. Wands represent passion and six represents harmony. Together this card represents a victory lap-- you are getting some recognition for the hard work you have put in and it feels good!
After a tumultuous period of having to deal with competition and struggle, you are being recognized for your hard work and creativity. You are finally with someone who matches your energy and drive or working in a place that recognizes your accomplishments. Take pride in what you've achieved-- you've come to it honorably.
Someone else is getting recognized instead of you-- either for treacherous reasons or it's just not yet your time. Continue putting in effort, don't give up, the truth comes out eventually and your time will come.
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Six of Wands for Capricorn in Money and Wealth
The Architect
Wands are the fire suit, so the Six 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 recovery is underway with the loss still in the room.
When reading about money through a Capricorn lens, the Six of Wands says that you feel like money is security against a specific catastrophe you cannot quite name, something you accumulate in silence, and never quite enough no matter what you earn. This has either built genuine financial stability and the power that comes with it or created a scarcity mindset that no paycheck can quiet. You have not looked at your full financial picture all at once, and the not-looking costs more than the looking would. 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 a risk with money, or earning from something you actually like. Whatever form it takes, it is recovering, with the loss still in the room.
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