That's for later, when everyone has been safely extracted from the car and taken to the hospital. At a car accident, you don't want to be someone who stops to carefully consider which verse of the Tao te Ching would best apply to the situation at hand. Sometimes, you REALLY, REALLY need a good first responder. Usually, a calm, considered approach is more helpful in the aftermath of a real emergency. I still don't much like it when people rush in because it's almost always a guarantee that A.) they will rush out again when it actually gets challenging (I *really* hate that), and B.) they are rushing in to fix things because of their own compulsions/dysfunctions, and not because they can actually help. Sometimes this is great! Sometimes it is patronizing and annoying. In a positive interpretation, the Knight of Wands can rush in and apply first aid to an emergent situation, like a very competent first responder. But s/he has a lot of energy and can address important situations with lots of fiery focus and attention.
He or she tends to rush into situations quickly and leave them just as fast (I do not like this much either way). The Knight of Wands has good aspects and challenging ones.
Sometimes, less often, they represent others. That's usually my first suspected interpretation. The second question doesn't make sense from this perspective, but I would reinterpret the answer to be more of an answer to "How can I make this better? How can I best meet this challenge?"Ĭourt cards often represent aspects of the person drawing them. So.from my perspective, and as crazy as it sounds, you don't actually want to avoid The Tower. Once you've grown and acquired the wisdom you need, you will have the ability to rebuild a better tower on a much more solid foundation in a healthy, sustainable way, with everyone operating in truth. It means that in that particular form, it was unsustainable in a healthy way. It doesn't mean that thing, person, situation or job is gone forever, either. In either case, the thing, person, situation or job that goes must go in order for you to grow into the next level of your healthiest being. Reversing The Tower means that you can kind of see it coming and prepare for it, so that instead of kicking you in the head and breaking you into little bits (temporarily), you can surf the tidal wave of change and manage the whole thing somewhat better. While the upright Tower refers to the explosion, collapse or dramatic exit of something that you value in a way that you haven't really adequately prepared for and/or foreseen, that thing that collapses, explodes or exits is something that has to go-at least in its current form-both because it is ultimately unsustainable/unhealthy as it is, and because it is holding you back from an important spurt of growth somewhere else in your life. So the best you can do with a major arcana card, both in reality and in desirability, is to change the tilt (in the case of rectangular cards, this means reversing them). Karmic lessons are there so that you can extract important wisdom and understanding that you NEED in order to move forward. In the big picture, you don't really want to, either. In my understanding, it is not really possible to avoid karmic lessons. Thus, for me, it represents a major karmic lesson. After looking it up, she asked how it could be avoided and pulled the Knight of Wands.ġ. One of my friends recently pulled The Tower.