By Sarah Taylor

Something is rounding off to an end. But this is a particular kind of ‘end’, because it implies the beginning of something else that’s connected to it.

The Judgment, Four of Wands, Eight of Wands from The Röhrig Tarot deck, created by Carl-W. Röhrig. Click on the image for a larger version.

The Four of Wands, you see, comes relatively early on in the Wands suit — just before half-way. So this “Completion” is more about finishing off one stage of a larger creative project. And, nearly always with Wands, I invite you to view the word “creative” in as broad terms as you can define it. It does not have to be work-related, nor artistic in the conventional sense. This is any kind of project to which you have devoted your erotic energy — that is, your procreative powers. It’s ‘juice’, life-force.

If you were reading this column several weeks back, you would have been introduced to the Three of Wands — which appeared more than once over a short period. In this card, a figure is walking down a road, over a hill and into the distance, heading towards some hills. You, like him, had struck out on a quest that asked for faith — particularly because it was guiding you away from what was familiar. It may even have asked you to walk alone, with little support for your particular (ad)venture.

But you were full of that juicy life-force that I write of above. Something was calling you, and something felt right. Others around you may have scratched their heads in confusion, may have ridiculed you, or may simply have been focussed elsewhere. You were connected to a growing sense of beauty that kept one foot in front of the other.

So now, today, you find yourself at the first waypoint. Here, in your life, there is a marker that confirms that you are where you are because you listened.

What immediately preceded this waypoint is the first card in today’s reading — The Judgment. As the foundation card, The Judgment will have made itself apparent in your life very recently, somewhere between your departure on this journey and now; somewhere in the past month or so. Maybe even in the past week or two.

The Judgment is a spiritual wake-up call. It is a revealing or understanding that is so powerful it brings something back to life, or allows something new to come through you that had previously been lying dormant, or defeated.

The Judgment has been the call you were waiting for to confirm that, yes, the path you’re on is your path. No mistakes. Your faith has been acknowledged.

It doesn’t necessarily mean that the path is comfortable or you’ll feel like you’re tripping the light fantastic. That’s not what The Judgment is about. It may be challenging; it may be chaotic; the pace may feel like some kind of mayhem at times. It may be hard to discern any underlying patterns when things get shaken up into consciousness in the way they have been. What it does do is liberate something in you — and very likely something around you, too — so that there is more energy available to you.

If your circumstances haven’t changed much, look within and ask yourself whether it’s rather you who’s changed. Whether you are now more able and adept at weathering the storms that have been hitting you. More than that: could it be that you are learning to navigate the storms so that they work for you, rather than against you? Have you somehow become a surfer of the unpredictable — a harnesser of the unpredictable? Maybe it’s that unpredictability no longer matters in the way it used to. If that’s the case, that’s some transformation, traveller!

And there’s more to come.

Your “completion,” whatever it looks like, has unleashed the kind of energy that you’re going to be able to feel in the form of the Eight of Wands. It’s coming up on the horizon. A channel will open; think of it like your surfboard getting an outboard motor. There will be meetings, connections — some external, and others an alignment with a part of you that brings with it emerging possibilities. A missing puzzle piece is revealed. It may have been staring you in the face all along. Now you’ll have the eyes to see it.

Astrology/Elemental correspondences: The Judgment (Pluto), Four of Wands (Venus in Aries), Eight of Wands (Mercury in Sagittarius)

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