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Knight of Wands · In Career

What does Knight of Wands mean for career and work?

Knight of Wands in a career reading: what it indicates about your work, your direction, and the move to make next.

In career and work

A high-energy push, a bold move, a risk taken.

He is the person you want to launch something and the wrong person to run it. Sagittarius gives it distance and scope, so relocation, travel and international work come up literally.

Reversed, a project charged into without planning and abandoned mid-way, which is the standing risk and is best managed by pairing him with somebody from Pentacles rather than by asking him to slow down.

Upright

Bold, decisive movement. Passion, adventure, charging at it.

Excellent when speed matters more than precision, which is a real category of situation and one where deliberation is the expensive option. Travel and relocation are common literal readings.

As a person he is exciting to be around and the thing he is best at is starting, which is genuinely valuable and is not the same as being able to finish.

Reversed

Recklessness, arrogance, burning out. Starting hard and leaving.

Or the energy blocked: frustration with no outlet, which is this figure's worst state because the volume does not reduce when the direction disappears.

The reading worth watching is the pattern rather than the instance. One abandoned venture is a decision; four is a description.

Keywords

Upright: action, passion, adventure, boldness, impulsiveness

Reversed: recklessness, burnout, arrogance, frustration

Journal prompts

  • Where would decisive action beat more consideration?
  • What have I charged into that I should have read first?

Draw it for yourself

Reading about a card is not the same as drawing one. A single-card reading takes about a minute and answers your question rather than a general one.

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