Two of Wands

The Two is planning with the world in your hand and your feet still at home. The first success has happened; the question is whether you will stay with it or leave for something larger.

Long-range planning, weighing options, deciding to expand. You have proved the concept. Now choose a direction and commit resources to it.

Fear of leaving what works. Planning that never becomes movement, or plans made without the information to make them. Playing small.

Deciding whether a relationship has a future worth planning for. Reversed, staying in the comfortable option out of fear of the unknown one.

Strategy, expansion, a decision between security and opportunity. Reversed, a plan that has stayed a plan too long.

Financial planning and considered risk. Investing in growth rather than banking the win.

The distance between the world you have and the world you can see. Discontent as information rather than ingratitude.

Planning a change rather than making one. Set the programme now.

A man in a castle holds a small globe and looks out over the sea; one wand is fixed to the wall, the other he holds. He owns the fortress and is looking past it. The whole card is in the direction of his gaze.

Waite's design departs sharply from the Marseille pips, which showed only two crossed batons. The globe and the merchant's vantage are Pamela Colman Smith's invention and are the reason the card reads as ambition rather than mere pairing.