Wands · Fire
Ten of Wandsfor Pisces · Health and Energy
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A man oppressed by the weight of the ten wands which he is carrying. Wands represents passion and ten represents family/endings. Together this card represents having an abundance of passions to the point that it becomes a burden. A true labor of love; this card is overworked and not yet in harmony. The journey of completing the task is done, but the journey of maintaining the task has just started.
You have completed your task and are carrying all of the fruits of your labor-- instead of a feeling of satisfaction and ease, you feel physically/mentally/psychically exhausted and are wondering if you can bear it all. Perhaps you promised a loved one something that has now become a burden (maybe a financial promise or a household task you took on alone). Maybe a project at work that felt like a promotion actually just means you now have two jobs. Either way, ask for help and delegate.
Instead of others demanding too much of you; you are demanding too much of yourself. The inner critique adds a lot of weight-- especially for pursuits involving creativity and passion. Perhaps you have over committed to avoid your emotions (you are too busy to feel). This behavior has caught up with you-- you need rest and balance. Practice saying no to things and accepting that no one can be perfect all the time.
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Ten of Wands for Pisces in Health and Energy
The Dreamer
Wands are the fire suit, so the Ten of Wands sits in Aries. Aries sits directly beside Pisces, the one relationship a sign cannot see clearly because it is too close to get any distance on. What it asks for is this: spend the energy on one thing today. The difficulty is noticing it is being asked at all. Upright, it is complete, which is not automatically the same as good.
When reading about health through a Pisces lens, the Ten of Wands says that you feel like your body is a signal you can ignore, pain is something to numb or postpone until it screams, and admitting you're suffering feels like complaining or demanding too much. This has either kept you functional through crisis by numbing out completely, or meant that by the time you pay attention the problem has grown teeth. The body has been sending the same signal for months and nobody has bothered to listen. The Pisces blind spot in it is the moment they have to stop being useful and admit they're drowning.
In practice that can look like moving your body again, or burning out and knowing it. Whatever form it takes, it is completing, possibly past the point it was useful.
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