24-Three of Wands Reversed Rider Waite Love Tarot Reading

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Romance, Love Or Relationships:

Recent difficulty in your love relationship may be coming to an end when The reversed Three of Wands appears. If you are looking for love, someone may try to establish a relationship with you. As the saying goes, ‘don’t judge a book by its cover.’ If you’re looking for love, give people a chance. You may be surprised in a very good way if you do.

Card Meanings: Holding On To The Past, Lack Of Progress/ Adventure/Growth, Arrogance, Moving Home, Failure, Self-Doubt, Carelessness, Restriction, Mistakes, Returning Travels, Lack Of Confidence, Pride, Disappointed With Choices/Outcome, Haunted By The Past, Frustration, Clipped Wings, Lack Of Foresight/ Planning, Failed Long Distance Relationship

It’s quite easy to mistake the meaning of a card named the Lord of Virtue. We can easily be misled into thinking that this means being dutiful and ‘doing the right thing’. However there is a much deeper level to this card than is immediately apparent. Virtue is about excellence – ethically and personally. It is about developing and maintaining high standards of behaviour, and then learning to have the confidence, self belief and strength of character to live out those standards through our every act. When we fall short of our expectations of ourselves, we retreat, disappointed and ashamed of ourselves. We can then take a long time to climb back up to the higher ground from which we can regard our own acts as part of the grand pattern of life. And, in the meantime, we continue to disappoint ourselves.

This is obviously not good for us, and neither is it good for life. So we need strategies to reduce the number of times we feel we let ourselves down, methods of forgiving ourselves when we do, and ways of recovering lost virtue as quickly as we can. This is where the 3 of Wands comes in. So, on a day ruled by him, make yourself a promise…..you will spend a little time moving back into the centre of yourself – do this by sitting quietly and gently drawing in breath, directing it to your heart centre and allowing it to fill you up with energy. When you have done that, spend a few more minutes thinking about your ethical standpoint. Ask yourself if you are out of alignment with yourself about anything. (Please avoid the trap of going “Absolutely EVERYTHING!!!!” This won’t help! Much better to work on one issue at a time, rather than allowing yourself to be overwhelmed.) If you find something you are unhappy about in your own behaviour, think the act, thought or feeling through without judging it. Work out why you have done/said/thought this thing. Go to the core of the problem, and do not blame anybody else. When you find the core reason, write it down on a piece of paper, tear the paper into several different pieces and throw them in the rubbish bin.

Since you have now rid yourself of the core problem, you now have no further need to act out that problem. So forgive yourself and do it differently.

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Portable Magic: Undines are useful in dealings connected with affection or love, and make good ritual agents in these affairs. A poltergeist associated with elemental Water would be accompanied by showers, rain storms, dampness, coolness, broken water pipes or plumbing fixtures, and the sudden and unexplained presence of wetness or water on the walls, floors, bedding, or clothing.

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Tarot Card Meanings: Three of Wands; generally relating to business and financial matters, this card represents stability, established success and the desire to build on these.  This is the card of new ventures built on old, of enterprise, collaboration, effort and knowledge.  Reversed; an end to troubles or difficulties, the beginning of a new era.

Portable Magic: This work is solely concerned with practical magic. It is not about using the cards for divination, although this is a fascinating and perfectly valid use for the Tarot. There are thousands of books on fortune telling with the cards, and anyone who seeks to learn to divine will have no trouble finding them. Here, you will discover what is infinitely more rare and precious: a way to use the Tarot ritually to cause active and potent change in the world in conformity with your will. That is the very heart and soul of magic.

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Portable Magic: Whereas the trumps concern forces that transcend the everyday events of mundane human existence, and the court cards represent different types of human nature, the number cards from Two to Ten are ideally suited to express actual happenings in the lives of individual human beings.