Card of the Day: Son of Wands

One thing that I appreciate so much about tarot is that it shows me all the various types and kinds of energy that go into an authentic life. This Son, or Knight, or Traveller, is associated with fire, adventure, excitement, new plans. It’s a magnetic energy that draws in people and manifests exciting, potent situations.

There are times in our life when we really need that kind of energy. When I was starting my own massage therapy practice in Brooklyn 15 years ago, it came in handy. It helped me feel excited, which gave me energy to hustle and do all the things. It’s helping me now to some degree, as I find myself surrounded by books and notebooks and a full calendar of things that delight me and bring me joy.

When we’re lacking this energy, it’s hard to find any get-up-and-go. Last summer, in the midst of an acute depression, it was a feat just to shower and eat something. Too much of this energy, and we light a bunch of fires and walk away. We form intense relationships and quickly get “bored” and abandon ship. We start a million projects and don’t see any of them through to completion. This card can also indicate a person with this kind of energy—a person who we feel drawn to and drawn in by, who disappears without any explanation, leaving us feeling insecure or depleted.

So this is why there are 78 cards in the deck. Because we can’t live by Son of Wands energy alone. When this energy is balanced with the other elements—pentacles to give us stick-to-it-iveness, cups to keep us in touch with our body, emotions and with the people in our life, and swords to give us the space for a broader perspective and clear thinking—it can set us on the road to manifesting what we truly long for.