Kitchen Table Tarot

Hello friend, and welcome to my kitchen table. I hope that wherever you are and whenever you find this that you can feel the love all around you—it may seem invisible, but it is there, I promise. If this resonates with you, I hope that you might find clarity and guidance. If it doesn’t, perhaps it may apply in the future. In either case, I am glad you are here. ♥️

The Ace of Wands is the great torch of creative firelight, serving to illuminate the construction of a new branch in your life. Great potential awaits if your heart can be open to change. What drives you to this new passage and renews your passions is the desire to make something more meaningful of your life. We contain multitudes; all of our iterations—everything we have ever made, destroyed, or repaired of ourselves—shapes who we are. This card ushers in a new direction and honors the constant change of our world and ourselves. As human beings we fight confinement, whether physical or mental, because stagnancy is the enemy of growth. We are each a constantly expanding universe, and to tether ourselves to a set of restrictive beliefs or the acceptance of permanent limitations is to deny our spirits and their universe-given right to soar. It keeps us from listening to intuition and using our discernment. The energy of this card is of a breakthrough, and breaking free. Your will is a powerful force that yearns to explore and play in the endless possibilities of existence, but perhaps right now you feel held back from this potential.

If you do find yourself at an impasse, breaking out of it won’t be easy. The Tower dictates that something must crumble away in order to uncover this new potential and new revision of the self. Perhaps the people around you aren’t encouraging when you speak on feeling stuck where you are. Group dynamics can easily swallow one’s sense of self. If the crowd around you—be it coworkers, family, close friends, fellows in a faith, or some kind of substitute family—shuts down your yearning to fly free in your truest self, they may not have your best interests at heart. As previously mentioned in a past read, nothing in this world is truly ours but our own selves; everything else is on loan. That includes you, dear friend. People are not entitled to you, nor do they own you, just because they at one time or another accepted or claimed you. If anyone makes vague threats meant to disarm your self-determination or intuition—things like you’ll never make it, that’s a bad idea, you’ll get hurt out there, you’ll fail, you’ll backslide, you’ll lose all that you’ve worked to achieve—this is a sign that you are definitely meant to move along, even if it means doing it alone. Appeals that are made to play on your emotions and provoke a feeling of vulnerability or incapability are not the work of people who love you. You are not a plant; you are not bound to a small plot. Though deconstructing your situation might seem incredibly intimidating, it is only the illusion of support you are giving up. I will not lie and say that this is easy. It can be, if you are secure in yourself, but disconnecting from people who have discouraged you from thinking independently is often extremely difficult. It can be a time of second-guessing and game-playing. This quote from Douglas Horton comes to mind: “If you love something, let it go free. If it doesn’t come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.” From your side of the situation, it means examining how those around you react to you potentially changing or moving on. Do they cling, make predictions about your certain doom, try to influence you with fears of disaster and “washing out”? Or do they encourage you to find yourself, wish you well, and accept that you are entitled to act under your own power? You must determine this for yourself.

The collapse of your current situation—or any situation—is much more surmountable than you might imagine. There is so much power within you, embodied by The Sun. When the Tower comes crashing down, you will have a clear view of the world around you—no longer living in the shadow of someone else’s construct, you will be bathed in light. Allowing everything to fall away will expose so much that isn’t currently visible. You do not grow by limited access to knowledge and perspective, and if the people around you discourage you from any viewpoint but theirs (which you may have bought into enthusiastically when it felt like a brilliant solution to your difficulties), then it is right to regard it with suspicion. The vibe of these cards impart the sense that you have been kept from asking too many questions or challenging a status quo for fear of upsetting some fragile balance or arrangement. Fragility is not sustainable. Walking on eggshells is doable for a short time, but is it how you want to live your life? Or would you rather harness the power of the sun? Only you can decide what you are capable of living with. We get one life, a jewel far too precious to keep in the dark. Allow the sun to shine on your unique being, and it will show you the path indicated by the Ace of Wands.

I am but a humble guide; it is the knowledge and wisdom of the collective both past and present that I interpret through the cards. I cannot tell you what decisions to make, because I believe in free will and the strength of the individual. But I do hope that if any of this resonates with you, it may provide some clarity and affirm for you what you might already know but don’t trust yourself to feel. Whoever needs this: I believe in you and your power, even if others have tried to strip it away. They will never overcome the seed of light within you. Go with peace and love, and remember, you are always welcome at my kitchen table. -KTT 🌻💛