Ten of Wands

The work got done — but the load has become the identity. The Ten of Wands asks: which of these wands are actually yours to carry? Set down what belongs to someone else.

Either the burden is finally released, or it collapses under its own weight. Either way, the old way of holding it is over.

✦ The Illustration

A stooped figure bears all ten wands in a bristling bundle, moving across the desert toward a small village on the horizon; one wand tipped with flame.

✦ Affirmation

“I lay down what was never mine to carry.”