Weekly Tarot Card Draw, 8 August 2010: 9 of Wands

Weekly Tarot Card Draw, 8 August 2010: 9 of Wands
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New Deck! :) Over the weekend, I went to Little Mysteries in downtown Halifax. I picked up two new decks, Brian Froud Faerie's Oracle, and Morgan-Greer Tarot. Both are second hand decks.

So after flipping through the whole deck a few times, I decided to do my weekly card draw from the Morgan-Greer. I pulled the Nine of Wands. It depicts a man dressed in battle armour, holding a staff, surrounded by 8 other staffs. There are mountains in the background against a golden sky.

This 9 of Wands is pretty different looking from the 9 of Wands in the RWS deck and I found it hard to interpret. I googled for Morgan-Greer Tarot and 9 of wands and the first hit was tarotteachings.com's website on the card (http://www.tarotteachings.com/nine-of-wands.html). Some of the key symbols in the card are the man's armour and the mountains, symbolising protection, preparation and strength and triumph and challenge. It looks like I'm going to need to be strong and persistent in the face of a challenge this week- I can't think of anything in particular that I know to be an issue this week, so I'm not really sure what it's all about. I'm curious to see what will happen this week and what Morgan-Greer Tarot has to tell me! Most curious of all, my daily card today was the 8 of Wands from my Tell-Me Tarot deck.