Thank you BE! Yes, that hand! Reaching up, as it were--to the O of Bastoni as if to catch the ring and pull itself up above the fray. Or: Yes, I volunteer for my fate. (Jung said free will is doing gladly that which I must do.)
I was intrigued with the balance of the upper pair--crozier and crutch, it's even alliterative (in English, anyway). How the ornateness of the crozier contrasts with the bone-like top of the crutch. It almost reminds me of a Death card, where all, even ecclesiastical authorities, are subject to death. And then...isn't one of the others a pen? The pointy tip on the bottom suggests that to me, though I don't understand the ball-thingy on the other end (ink?). And the one with the three spiked balls...it looks so graceful but suddenly I realized it could be a scourge. Hmm...
This is indeed a beautiful and artful way to represent the idea of destiny, including the quote you kindly translated. All the wands so different, yet in essence made of the same stuff.
Overall, the graceful slim curlicues swirling around the straightness of the wands is like the swirls of clouds or dreams. Seems fitting for the idea of (strong) destiny taking shape out of the mists of potential.
Interesting: at first I associated this image to 7 of CUPS in RWS with its idea of different choices/fates being presented, but here it's 7 of
WANDS.
Well, thanks for that opportunity to meditate on this lovely card. A bit of enabling--I moved the deck back up into my Amazon shopping cart where it had been languishing in "saved for later." (I shouldn't press "buy" right now, though.
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