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I'm the author of the Terrell Bites. I'm Teresa Reed the Terrell Lady.

I'm the author of the Terrell coloring book and the creator of the Terrell Master Class.

I'm also your host for this

podcast series. This is episode 11 of Tarot Bites, the podcast where I dish out

short entertaining bite-sized lessons on how to retero.

Now for today's episode our topic is The Magician.

So let's go ahead and dive right in. Now last week we began exploring the

tarot cards one by one and we started out of course with the fool. Now we're

moving on to the second card in the major

O'Connor, the magician. The magician symbolizes skill and talent.

This is the card of mastery, but also sometimes apprenticeship.

While our fool seems to be off on a journey, here the magician is busy honing his skills.

He's ready to take control of his life and manifest the things he desires the most.

This card is all about intention and the ability to direct your energy toward the things you want to accomplish, have, or be.

It's manifestation.

Now if you look at the figure, you're going to notice that he's holding a wand.

And in last week's episode episode we discuss how the fool

also has a wand but he was using it pretty much to carry his bag you know he's kind of a

carefree guy so maybe he didn't think too much about what that wand was capable of doing.

Now the magician on the other hand is being way more intentional here. He's taking that wand and he is thrusting it up to the heavens while he points the

other hand down toward the earth. So the statement here is as above so below and this is focused will which is actually the first

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