Eight of Wands

Upright

Everything moving at once, fast. News arriving, momentum you didn't have to force.

Reversed

Momentum stalling, or moving so fast you've stopped steering.

Its element

Fire — drive, nerve, the thing that gets started. Fire is generous with energy and terrible at admitting when it has run out.

Mercury in Sagittarius — the specific weather this card sits in.

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