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Six of Wandsfor Gemini · Health and Energy

Six of Wands tarot card

"Victory isn't the question. What you do next is."

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On the card

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!

Upright
VictoryRecognitionSuccessPublic Acclaim

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.

Reversed

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.

Its place in the deck.

Minor ArcanaNumber card
One of the 56 Minor Arcana. They are about what is happening in ordinary life right now. Each belongs to one of four suits, numbered Ace to Ten, plus four court cards.
SuitWands · Fire
Wands are the suit of Fire: drive and spirit. A Wands card is always, underneath, about what you want badly enough to act on.
NumberSix
The numbers tell a story inside each suit, from a seed at the Ace to the full expression at Ten. Six is the recovery: movement after the loss, with the loss still in the room.

Where it shows up.

In the stars
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FireElement
Energy, passion, and action. In tarot: Wands.
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Six of Wands for Gemini in Health and Energy

The Communicator

Wands are the fire suit, so the Six 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. Upright, the recovery is underway with the loss still in the room.

When reading about health through a Gemini lens, the Six of Wands says that you feel like your body is a problem to research, something you understand in theory better than practice, and a thing you will address once you find the perfect plan (or once you finally stop waiting). This has either made you knowledgeable and eventually proactive or left you reading about the symptom for months instead of calling the doctor. The body has been sending the same signal for months and nobody has bothered to listen. The Gemini blind spot in it is stillness, silence, the moment when talking stops and you have to feel what you actually feel, the weight of having chosen one thing and not the other.

In practice that can look like moving your body again, or burning out and knowing it. Whatever form it takes, it is recovering, with the loss still in the room.

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