Being on the top rung of the ladder can be both exhilarating and totally unbalancing at the same time. When you are at the top of your field of experience the only way you can go is down.. or so it would seem. Competition is healthy.. when the outcome is not as important as the experience gained.

Achieving recognition for your accomplishments takes a lot of time, effort, and patience. It also requires humility and a large amount of gratitude to those who support and encourage your achievements. This is the message inherent in the Six of Wands.

The world would be a really uninteresting place without diversity. What we believe and how we act on our beliefs is a reflection of who we are both individually and collectively. However, different belief systems can incite conflict on many different levels. Thus speaks the Five of Wands.

Leaving everyone and everything you have come to love behind you isn't an easy task. However, there are times in our lives when we have to make this kind of change to allow our spirit the freedom to grow. The celebration concerning this type of change is the message inherent in the Four of Wands.

The Two of Wands is about making spiritually based decisions. The Three of Wands takes these decisions one step further. In essence this card represents bringing the thought process into physically based reality.

The Two of Wands speaks of choices. There are crossroads in all of our lives which offer two or more suitable outcomes. But, should we follow our head or our heart? Or, should we listen to that small voice that is our spiritual intuition?

The suit of Wands relates to spirituality, life purpose rather than career, intuition, family, and practical issues. Wand people tend to be natural problem solvers who rely almost exclusively on their intuition for guidance.

What I learned about myself while writing about the Fool's journey is nothing short of amazing. I have followed the Fool through the darkness and into the light. This is the story of my own individual Fool's journey.

The Ten of Cups reveals the culmination of heartfelt dreams, hopes, plans and wishes. Because Cups represent emotion, the final outcome would have been brought about through the process of tears, fears, doubts and frustrations as well as joy, laughter and much love.

The best definition of the Nine of Cups would be "putting all your cups in a row". This card represents completion of cycle and a sense of contentment with the way one's life has turned out. The only problem is that with a sense of completion sometimes comes a sense of complacency.