The Images of the Tarot Oracle in Psychic Readings

The Nine of Wands

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall." With these words, Robert Frost expressed the fact that he was not always in perfect harmony with the cold deliberation of his Yankee milieu. "My apples will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'" This neighbor would have appreciated the image of Nine Wands, which expresses the need for boundaries. As such, it also evokes the strength and constancy that are required in the defense of boundaries. People with a greater affinity for the spiritual as distinct from the material aspects of life tend to discount the need for boundaries. But it will never do to be excessively one-sided on either side of this existential equation. Even the Divinity, we are told, in one of His first acts at the dawn of Creation, was careful to divide the light from the dark.

One of our clients had been repeatedly betrayed and hurt by a boyfriend who seemed to have no consistent respect for her sensitivity or concern for her vulnerability in relationship with him. He seemed unwilling to define his intentions clearly either as friend or lover. And his thoughtless infidelities had caused her very substantial pain and suffering. In our Reading for her, the image of Nine Wands focused on the need for her own initiative in drawing the necessary boundaries in this relationship. Until she herself was determined to define the relationship in one way or the other, she could not hope to avoid the violation of her needs in the relationship. Only after establishing her own proper boundaries could she hope to see him properly orient his position in relationship to them. We reminded her, at the risk of being trite, that in every relationship, one has to draw the line somewhere.