tarot card meanings · minor arcana · wands
ten of wands — tarot card meaning
All ten carried at once; oppressive success, the last mile.
reversed
The load set down, or shifted onto the wrong shoulders.
two philosophical anchors, cited
Choose your burdens · Epictetus, Enchiridion 43 (tr. Long)
“Everything has two handles, the one by which it may be borne, the other by which it may not.”
Doing without striving · Daodejing, ch. 48 · after Legge
“He diminishes doing and again diminishes it, until he arrives at doing nothing on purpose - and nothing is left undone.”
the question we would ask
Which of these ten sticks would nothing bad happen if you put down?
how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.