Eight of Wands

To everything there is a season, surely. But sometimes it's the season for getting things done in a hurry! This helpful guide from Du Pont helped farmers in 1910 transform their own land at whatever pace their imaginations galloped at. Dynamite is very powerful, much more so than gunpowder, but it is actually safer to handle," it reassures. Excavating, plowing, clearing land -- all a snap (and cheap, too!) if you take a few simple precautions.

The Eight of Wands can certainly knock you sky-high out of the rut you're in, perhaps even more directly than some of the deeper transformational cards that we've explored. But it's also a little safer. Just like a farmer may have to blast out stumps or shatter hard-pan and shale in order to get to soil worth cultivating, sometimes the more profound transformations in our lives simply aren't within our grasp without some major changes on the surface. "Aha!" you'll say as thought-patterns crumble or lightning strikes, "I just remembered I have somewhere else to be." This mini-epiphany won't end your problems, but you'll be astounded to find yourself travelling in a new direction -- whether inward or outward -- not caring whether you're actually flying or merely being catapulted by the blast. [Via]