And the Hello and

I'm Teresa Reed the Tarol Lady. I'm the author of the Tarot Coloring Book and I'm your host for this podcast series.

This is episode 52 of Tarobites, the podcast where I just showed, short entertaining bite-sized

lessons on how to re-tero. For today's episode, our topic is the Nine of Wands.

Grab your tarot decks and let's begin.

So I've got to say that this card is not one of my favorites.

You know, every tarot reader has their faveses as well as those cards that they just

don't dig and the reason why I'm not a fan of the 901s is because of the

paranoid look on this figure's face I can't stand that feeling so that's why I've sometimes grown

when I pull this card for myself. But this card just isn't you know about paranoia.

In fact it has a lot of other loaded meanings. So let's take a gander

and some of the symbols and some possible interpretations.

So in previous podcasts, I've said that body language says a lot.

Now if you look at the figure in this card, he seems to be jealously guarding his wand or getting ready for a fight.

Now the expression on his face is a mixture of paranoia and aggravation.

And that shows you right off the bat that this card says something is up.

The bandage around his head symbol is. This card says something is up.

The bandage around his head symbolizes a wound or a psychic wound.

Now my friend Jillian who hosts the Hamelcast podcast and also Stars Under Residuals calls this card the Wounded Warrior.

I love that interpretation.

Actually, when I got that interpretation from her, it completely changed the way that I started to look at this card.

So anyhow, let's think about those clues for a moment. Now when we begin using those clues we can see that this card is

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