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Six of Wands

Rider-Waite

General meaning

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↕ Reversed

By topic

Love

recognition within the relationshippride in your partnera moment to celebrate togetherstrengthened mutual trustvisible progress in the bondmutual admirationshared success as a couplefeeling valued by the other persona good reputation as a coupletriumph over a difficulty together

↕ unequal recognition as a couple, pride that creates distance, comparing yourselves to other relationships, an unshared achievement, insecurity about the bond, needing your partner's approval, one person's success overshadowing the other's, jealousy from comparison, a questioned triumph in the relationship, discouragement after unrecognized effort

Friendship

recognition within the grouppride in belongingshared success with friendsmutual admirationa good social reputationnotable progress in the circlea group celebration of an achievementstrengthened trust between friendscollective triumphpublicly recognized support

↕ comparing yourself to friends, envy within the group, unequal recognition, pride that distances you from the group, success that creates distance, needing social approval, a triumph questioned by others, insecurity over someone else's achievement, a lackluster celebration, discouragement from a lack of recognition

Family

family priderecognition of an achievement at homecelebrating a shared successvisible progress within the familyadmiration among relativesa good household reputationstrengthened family trusttriumph over a family difficultyshared satisfactionrecognized support at home

↕ comparing yourself to relatives, pride that creates distance, unequal recognition at home, family envy, one person's success overshadowing others', needing family approval, a questioned triumph at home, insecurity over another family member's achievement, a lackluster family celebration, discouragement from a lack of family recognition

Career

professional recognitiona well-earned promotionvisible success in your trajectoryconfidence in your own patha good reputation in the fieldcolleagues' admirationprofessional triumphnotable career progresssatisfaction over the achievement reachedrecognized leadership

↕ denied professional recognition, comparing yourself to other colleagues, pride that damages your image, questioned success, insecurity after a professional achievement, needing outside approval at work, a fleeting career triumph, professional envy, blocked progress despite the effort, discouragement from a lack of recognition at work

Work

recognition from the teamsuccess on a projectreinforced confidence in your rolea good work reputationadmiration from coworkerstriumph over a work challengevisible progress in taskssatisfaction over a job well donerecognized leadership on the teama shared positive result

↕ denied recognition at work, comparing yourself to coworkers, pride that creates friction, unvalued success, insecurity despite the effort, needing the team's validation, a questioned triumph in your role, workplace envy, blocked progress despite results, discouragement from a lack of recognition at work

Studies

passing successfullyacademic recognitiontop honourswinning a competitiona good public gradeconfidenceclassmates' admirationvisible achievement

↕ success that doesn't arrive, lack of recognition, grades below expectations, wounded ego, depending on others' approval, a fall after success, insecurity, comparison

Money

recognized gainsvisible financial successconfidence in your own financesa good financial reputationsatisfaction over a financial achievementnotable progress in incometriumph over a money difficultya favorable financial resulthealthy pride in what you've achieveda well-earned financial reward

↕ questioned gains, comparing your finances to others', excessive financial pride, fleeting financial success, insecurity about your own money, needing approval for what you earn, envy over money matters, blocked financial progress, discouragement after unrewarded financial effort, a disappointing financial result

Pets

a visible achievement in its trainingpride in its progressrecognition of its good behaviorstrengthened trust with the animalsatisfaction over the bond achievednotable progress in its caretriumph over a behavioral difficultyothers' admiration for the animala good reputation as a caretakera positive result in its wellbeing

↕ comparing it to other pets, excessive pride in its behavior, a questioned achievement in its training, insecurity about your own care, needing outside validation, envy over another animal's behavior, blocked progress, discouragement after unrewarded care effort, a disappointing result in its training, a lackluster celebration of an achievement with the pet

Health

a visible achievement in wellbeingpride in your own physical progressrecognition of your health effortstrengthened confidence in your bodysatisfaction over a health goal reachednotable progress in wellbeingtriumph over a physical difficultya positive result in recoveryadmiration for your own efforta reward for sustained care

↕ comparing your body to others', excessive bodily pride, a questioned health achievement, insecurity despite the progress, needing approval about your own body, envy over someone else's wellbeing, blocked health progress, discouragement after unrewarded physical effort, a disappointing wellbeing result, a lackluster celebration of a health achievement

Choices

a decision recognized as the right oneconfidence in the option chosensatisfaction over the outcome of the choicevisible progress after decidingtriumph over the initial doubta favorable result from the decisionadmiration for the clarity in decidinga good reputation for the decision madehealthy pride in the choicea reward for having decided well

↕ a decision questioned by others, comparing it to other possible options, excessive pride in the choice made, the decision's outcome cast into doubt, insecurity despite having decided, needing validation about the choice, envy over another decision's result, blocked progress despite deciding, discouragement after an unexpected result, a lackluster celebration of the decision made

Creative projects

recognition for the finished projectvisible success in the workreinforced confidence as a creatora good artistic reputationadmiration for the work accomplishedtriumph over a creative challengenotable progress in the projectsatisfaction over the final resulthealthy pride in the worka reward for the creative effort

↕ denied recognition for the project, comparing it to other works, excessive artistic pride, questioned creative success, insecurity despite the result, needing outside approval for the work, envy over another creator's success, blocked progress despite the effort, discouragement after an unrecognized project, a lackluster celebration of the creative achievement

Creativity

recognition of your own talentreinforced confidence in your artistic voicesatisfaction over your own evolutionnotable progress as a creatortriumph over an overcome blockadmiration for your own processa good creative reputationhealthy pride in your artistic developmenta reward for creative consistencya positive result in your own expression

↕ comparing yourself to others' talent, excessive artistic pride, questioned recognition of your own talent, insecurity despite creative progress, needing outside validation of your talent, envy over others' talent, blocked progress in artistic development, discouragement after unrecognized creative effort, a disappointing result in your own expression, a lackluster celebration of creative progress

✨ 3 tips for combining it

1. With The Sun, success in capital letters. Example: Six of Wands + The Sun is being recognised for something in front of everyone.
2. With Pentacles, recognition reaches your wallet. Example: Six of Wands + Ten of Pentacles points to a promotion or an achievement that shows in your finances.
3. With ego cards, careful not to rest on your laurels. Example: Six of Wands + Seven of Cups suggests not letting the applause distract you from what you really want.

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