Two of Wands (Reversed) | Tarot Card of the Day
“Don’t obsess over what the future holds”
Two of Wands (Reversed) | Tarot Card
When the Two of Wands appears reversed, it represents obsessive planning and thinking about future events that you don’t have control over.
This card tells you that you may be getting ahead of yourself. Are you lost in a trance of a future, full of grandiosity or calamities, that hasn't manifested yet? The man on the card is lost in his machinations for the future as well. The Lord of the manor on the card is not present. When reversed this card indicates that you may have to stop hoping, planning, wishing, dreading, or obsessing about a future that is not here yet. Worrying about events that have not yet transpired can rob you of peace in yourself in the moment.
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Do you feel anxious or restless because you have not yet found your "life's purpose?"
The Two of Wands card symbolizes a feeling of lack in your life, as if something is missing and you would be happy if you just had that one thing. This sense of restlessness can be beneficial as it can motivate you to set goals and make positive changes in your life. However, the Two of Wands cautions that material achievements and possessions will not ultimately bring you happiness. While obtaining what you desire can feel good for a while, if you do not have genuine love for yourself, the achievement will eventually feel empty. Searching for happiness through external factors like money, relationships, or social status can be a futile and exhausting pursuit.
The image on the Two of Wands card shows a lord overlooking his estate, feeling restless and unfulfilled. He grew up in poverty and believed that wealth would bring him happiness. He learned to sail and became very successful, but still did not feel satisfied. He then thought that owning a castle would finally make him happy, but again, the feeling of restlessness returned. The man then set his sights on owning the entire world, convinced that this would bring him joy. However, it is unlikely that even possessing the entire world would have satisfied him.
Abraham Lincoln once said, "Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be." The Two of Wands teaches us that achieving external goals and accumulating possessions is not enough to bring happiness to a discontented heart. While money can make it easier to enjoy life, it cannot provide genuine joy.
The truth is that no accomplishment, person, appearance, or amount of money can "make" you happy if you do not already have self-love and joy within yourself. If you can find happiness and self-love at this moment, without achieving any external goals, you can free yourself from the endless pursuit of happiness through material possessions.
Today, try to let go of the belief that you need something external to make you happy. Remember that wherever you go, there you are.
Planning for the future is healthy and necessary but obsessing about it is not.
Give worrying about the future a rest. The truth is, the future that you are spending so much energy on planning to the minutest detail will probably not resemble your plan completely anyway. Like the lord of the manor on the card, you are surrounded by life's blessings right now, but you must remind yourself to stay present experience them. Nothing seems to ever go exactly according to plan in life. Nature has a way of breaking rules we try to impose. Do the task in front of you with excellence and let go of the worries that are out of your control.
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