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FOUR OF WANDS
Like all the Fours, the Four of Wands represents a natural pause. It’s a moment to breathe, to reflect, and appreciate your efforts thus far. Let’s face it - starting a new project or journey takes a lot of work and energy. It’s relatively easy to come up with new ideas and passing inspiration, but actually finding the motivation to put them into action is a feat in and of itself.
DEATH
It may surprise people, but Death is one of my absolute favorite cards in the tarot deck. There’s been a great deal of fear and superstition created around this card by pop culture and media - how many times have we seen an occult-inclined show where someone pulls the Death card and has their doom foretold?
EIGHT OF SWORDS
The 8 of Swords, like its siblings in the other suits, is about choice and having faith in the process of change. Often, it depicts situations where we’re kept stuck by our own thoughts, fears and lack of perspective. Our brains are wired to feel that what’s familiar, even if harmful, is safer than the alternative of the unknown, and this card asks us to work on rewiring those patterns so we can grow.
Two Years with Map of the Soul: 7
It’s hard to believe it’s been two whole years since Map of the Soul: 7 was released. With the exception of The Remix That Shall Not Be Named (which I have hidden on all my streaming services so the album can end with Outro: Ego as nature intended), I truly believe MOS7 is a perfectly constructed album from start to finish, both musically and emotionally. The journey that it takes you on through different genres and different aspects of the self is devastating and uplifting all at once. Therapeutic, I would call it - which makes sense, given that the album’s entire concept was modeled off of Jungian psychology.
THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
Whenever I draw The Wheel of Fortune for myself or others, I find that it’s usually this invitation to check where we’ve tightened our grip to avoid the negative. Where we’re clenched, where we’re hoping to stay in control of flawless outcomes. We want to seize the wheel and control its direction, rhythm, and velocity so that we don’t get hurt.
THE EMPRESS
Whenever The Empress appears in a reading, I take it as a sign that it’s time to get a little bit wild, to get my hands into the metaphorical dirt and see what grows. The Empress doesn’t search for beauty with the hopes of capitalizing on it, they indulge in beauty and pleasure for the pure joy of the experience. When they work on an artistic endeavor, it’s because they simply have the urge to create, not because they are working toward a larger goal. This card is a reminder to be in the moment, to see what gems you can unearth without even trying.
THREE OF SWORDS
The image of the 3 of Swords is perhaps one of the most striking in traditional decks. We see a heart pierced through by three swords against a rainy background – not the most comforting imagery. And it is a challenging card, but it’s no omen of doom.
Tarot Reader Feature — Kirstin Wu
I was casually aware of BTS from around 2019 – I’d watched a couple of videos, but never fallen down that rabbit hole we know so well. I think part of me held off, knowing it wasn’t something I’d be able to just put down once I took the leap. For a while I just absorbed snippets of information from ARMY friends, including fellow astrologers like @charmastrology and @alicesparklykat. I still remember Charm’s use of Jungkook’s chart as an example in an Astrocartography lecture!