The Core

“At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self.”

Brendan Behan, poet

Though not as extreme as the passion, lust and desire embodied in the major arcana Lovers card, and despite the overlay of watching, waiting, and expecting, there is a wistful, yearning quality to the two of wands.

The Lovers asks what is your passionate flaming desire.

The Two of Wands asks what is your nagging, persistent emptiness? What is your constant yearning? Sometimes this is the greater motivator and the greater suffering by virtue of being a constant companion.

You have another constant companion – yourself.