Saturday, August 27, 2016

Seven of Wands – A time to clear out the Dead Wood

For today I pulled the Seven of Wands from the Original Rider Waite Tarot and I picked its counterparts from the Wildwood Tarot and The Wild Unknown Tarot. 
Seven of Wands Original Rider Waite Tarot, The Wild Unknown Tarot, Wildwood Tarot
When I pulled this card, the first thing that came to mind was of course “standing up for your beliefs” but when I saw the other two cards, I was reminded of how some of us (including myself), struggle with too many creative idea’s, passions and whatever keeps our heart and soul occupied. That got me thinking about the concept of pruning. After the Summer our garden looks a bit like a jungle. Some of our plants, like the Wisteria, even grow offshoots which almost strangle you when you walk past them. But if you want to have flowers and the next year you have to master the art of pruning. Prune too much and the plant will wither and die, too little and all its energy will go to maintaining all the excess branches and leaves instead of growing new flowers. In short we have to prune our non viable ideas (for now) to give room to our most  passionate desire to come to fruition. And perhaps maybe you will be amazed by how rich and luscious your creative talents will grow and develop.

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.” Steve Jobs

8 comments:

  1. Excellent post and alternate understanding of this card. We have a saying of someone having "too many irons in the fire." Pruning back, as you said, can help our our inspiration and passion burn bright again, like the fires in two of those cards. :)

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    1. Thanks Bev. You post form yesterday was my main inspiration for today. These creative challenges are experienced by so many people. So let' s get our pruners out and start clipping! :D

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  2. What you focus on expands. I like the pruning analogy. I try to prune away those excess thoughts and worries and for time I think that I have cleared them away; then like the central card they show up again and I have to battle them to back of the closet of my mind.

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    1. Just like in our garden: we have to prune again and again otherwise there will be a rampant overgrowth of all kinds of plant life and most often not the ones we prefer to have in our little back yard :)

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  3. the more I stay on guard from too much stuff, the more my mind is able to pick the important from the not important in thought.

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    1. Yes preventing to become emotional overloaded is the best way I guess. But just like I commented on your post I not there yet either :)

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  4. Plants which almost strangle you as you walk past them. My honeysuckle like that, the two sides of the garden almost touching each other and some lovely peonies completely overshadowed until I got busy with the shears a few weeks ago.

    Same with art and writing if we allow everything to bloom at once it is hard for others to see the best parts of our work.

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    1. Hello and welcome to my blog!
      Ha ha! If my honeysuckle would be like that too I would have to buy a machete. This afternoon the temperature has dropped a bit so M, my daughter, was handling our the shears vigorously. Our garden looks a lot bigger now :)

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