Wands · Fire
Three of Wandsfor Virgo · Love and Relationships
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A calm, stately personage, with his back turned, looking from a cliff's edge at ships passing over the sea. Three staves are planted in the ground, and he leans slightly on one of them. Wands represent passion and three represents community. Together this card represents building a community of supporters and finding people who share your passions.
You started a new hobby or new business recently and you are growing a community around that. You are building something with others and sharing the load. Triangles are strong structural supports and you building out foundational friendships and relationships that will serve you for a long time and bear the load of your future goals.
You are having trouble connecting with people-- perhaps you are being rigid in your beliefs and vision for the future. Community involves some sacrifice for the shared dream. Perhaps you are just simply not with the people you need to be with. Don't bend when it comes to your true morals and values, but don't let your passions prevent you from connecting with your loved ones. Find common ground and mutual respect.
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Three of Wands for Virgo in Love and Relationships
The Analyst
Wands are the fire suit, so the Three of Wands sits in Aries. Aries and Virgo are quincunx, two signs with nothing in common: no shared element, mode, or polarity. This card will not slot neatly into how Virgo already operates. What it wants is this: spend the energy on one thing today. It has to be done deliberately or it will not happen. Upright, it has become visible to other people, which is the part that makes it real.
When reading about relationships through a Virgo lens, the Three of Wands says that you feel like your partner is someone whose life you can improve, a problem you can solve (or prevent), and a person you check on more than you check in with. This has either led to a partnership where you catch things before they break, or to your care feeling like an obligation nobody asked for. The thing you're not saying out loud is the thing that matters most. The Virgo blind spot in it is the feeling of being useless, or of having wasted time on something that didn't hold up.
In practice that can look like wanting more than you said you did. Whatever form it takes, it is about to become visible to other people.
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