My Tarot Valentine ’24: It Takes Two (Wands) to Tango

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It’s easy to say the number two cards of the minor arcana are about balance. Pentacles talk about moving balance, swords about the known vs the unknown and so on. Beyond the easy to say idea of balance, the two cards hint at something more philosophical: duality.

To say “balance” is to imply that there are two or more things that need to be balanced. Even if you have just one plate spinning on just one stick in the circus act of life, you are still balancing the plate vs gravity vs angular momentum vs why are you doing a circus act in the first place…

The Two of Wands is particularly dialed into this aspect of balance. Where there is duality there is choice.

When it comes to relationships, choice isn’t control.

You have total agency over what you do and say and give and take from a relationship, but you have no say in your love interest’s response.

It is heartbreaking when their response is rejection.

Which shows how precious it is when the response is love in return

But whatever happens, the choice always returns to you. When you are given the precious thing, it is up to you to make choices that protect and nurture it. If you are given the heartbreaking thing, it is up to you to make the choices that help you heal. That includes the choice to reach out to other people in other ways and get help when it is needed.

Either way, our response is our choice and our responsibility. Like the two upright wands on the card, our choice is our portal. It our doorway to relationship, to the great privilege of loving and nurturing others but also to loving and nurturing our own path through life, whatever shape that takes.

The Two of Wands’ Tarot Valentine for you is simply this: choose love.

That doesn’t mean other people will choose to give it back to you. It does mean that you always have the option of giving love be it to another person or to healing your own life path.

It takes two to tango and two to make a romance happen but it only takes one person to choose love even when it is out of our control where that love lands.