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Six of Wandsfor Libra · Work and Career

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 Libra in Work and Career

The Harmonizer

Wands are the fire suit, so the Six of Wands sits in Aries. Aries sits directly opposite Libra, so this card describes the half of the situation Libra habitually hands to someone else. What it wants is this: spend the energy on one thing today. Handing that to another person is exactly the habit. Upright, the recovery is underway with the loss still in the room.

When reading about work through a Libra lens, the Six of Wands says that you feel like work is a place to prove you can hold everyone's needs at once, a problem to solve without anyone feeling sidelined, and something that must look effortless even when it exhausts you. This has either led to you becoming the person everyone relies on and never quite gets to rely on in return, or to you quietly building something on your own terms while everyone else thought you were still deciding. You have not asked yourself what you actually want from this work, only what you think you should want from it. The Libra blind spot in it is being the one who breaks the tie, names the problem, or asks for something first.

In practice that can look like a new role or project. Whatever form it takes, it is recovering, with the loss still in the room.

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