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Radiant: 2 of Wands-Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot
The Modern Witch Tarot-Two of Wands
One may notice a disparity between action shown in the Modern Witch Tarot and Rider-Waite-Smith -2 of Wands. This is because the Modern Witch Tarot is an Modern remake of the RWS Tarot. Instead of a world globe in her hand is the Modern World information representative that is the Smart Phone. The Minor Arcana and/or "small cards", are very pertinent to everyday life and emotional decisions, representing specific actions, experiences, and states of consciousness. Therefore, I find them very powerful in the moment of daily life. The Primary meaning of this card, is creative inventiveness expressed boldly, even rashly. Here, an absolutely brilliant and original idea emerges as a product of a totally free, intelligent, and independent mind. Represented here, is a person who insists on doing things their own way, refusing to be channeled by outside authority or any organization. This one is totally immersed in the work, so much so, that they may be very irritating to another.
This meaning of independent inventions, is subtlety shown, in the Rider-Waite-Smith rendition of the 2 of Wands, We see a tall man looking over the battlements, towards sea and shore. In his right hand is a globe and a staff is in his left and rests on the battlement, while another staff is fixed in a ring. The Rose-cross and white lilies should also be noticed on the left side. White lilies are purity, and the Rose -cross is a symbol much like the Ankh, depicting The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn that made use of the rosy cross as well, including 'The Ritual of the Rose Cross," designed for spiritual protection and as preparation for meditation. Based on the Rosicrucian symbolism of the Red Rose and the Cross of Gold, it is also a key symbol of the Golden Dawn's Second Order. None of these flowers are shown in the Two of Wands, Modern Witch Tarot.
Therefore, on the Rider-Waite- Smith card we have an image of a ruler caught in a dilemma. Between the alternative readings of the Globe and the staff, there is no marriage possible, on one hand, riches, fortune, magnificence on the other, physical suffering, disease, chagrin, sadness, mortification. The image suggests, that a lord overlooking his dominion, is alternatively contemplating a globe, looking like he is caught in a malady, the sadness and mortification of Alexander amidst the grandeur of the world's wealth. Therefore, caught between the need to go forward into Spiritual introspection of a hermetic, or leaving the wealth and power of rule of the world behind.
In Western Hermetic Qabalistic Tarot, the 2 of Wands represents the unlimited dominion of the Divine Creatrix (Will to Form) and the Divine Creator (Will to Force). This Unlimited Willed Energy, is oppressed/limited in forms ; a necessary oppression to be sure, but sill in each of us, the enclosed Energy fights to join with the Totality. By invoking more of the One Energy, one changes the form's Time/Space (we are space/spirit, which encompasses a measurement of information/time), too more energetic boundaries than before and the one who invokes is often accused of "insanity" because their reality (boundaries) has changed from the normal- form- boundaries of animal life, to that of the para-normal. That expansive perspective makes both genius and insanity seem to be one and the same. One must remember that the mundane form is bound by a lesser vibratory perspective of self absorbed behavior and fears the greater unknown and therefore, lives a "scattered" life of "reaction". While often the "insane" and/or "metaphysical" have one powerful focus of action at a time in the Now. They know their intent which often makes them unconcerned with "material things", considering the collection of them as illusions of security conjured up by the senses of the body and the animal fear of death. They Know they are Wealth, Health, and Well being and thereby, unconcerned that lack is part of their life.
Anyway you look at it, the 2 of wands are both Force and Potential, giving one a concentration of great creative power to completely change their environment. Either expanding and liberating their identity or confining their identity to the "needs" identified by indoctrination and dogma. The man-made identity is a "Wanna-be" while the Divine Soul, is an I Am, who controls their environment rather than reacting to one.
When the 2 of Wands card is thrown during a Divination, the querent is being:
- Overcome by boldness. courage, fierceness, and Shamelessness.
- Generous and proud, but also a certain amount of revenge, and resolution.
- There is a suggestion of turbulent energy, that seems to be beyond the "ego's" ability to control but it can also become sagacious, yet unforgiving and obstinate.
- Centering only on the love within, is the solution to this immense Power of Will, that is all around us, but of what we have so little contact with, as we have "given ourselves" to the definitions of "others".....and believe we have little, if any "Will Power".
- This card is suggesting that the Spirit (Will) is beginning to rebel against its predisposed boundaries...come "Hell or High Water"!
- The querent is claiming and validating the Self and instigating new self-concepts.
- Synthesizing their abilities producing a new powerful life.
- The intuition is awakening and claiming the body as a Wand of power...the inner Dragon is awakening.
If ill defined by the surrounding cards-and/ or reversed , it implies:
- Destructiveness.
- The persona becomes baffled by the vital power unleashed without a "lust for result" and/or intent, thereby, not producing the result they had expected.
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