I love retro, I love the 50/60’s housewife icon and this deck looked like a lot of fun. One of the things so great about using a tarot deck when you are creating, either a story, or something visual, is you have all the various images to draw from in all the different decks.
After spending some time with my new deck this morning, I decided to draw a card from it specifically for today’s post- As a “just for fun, let’s see what I get” sort of thing.
After all, even though the readings from any divination tool is serious and very beneficial, we can also just have fun with it.

The card I drew was the Queen of Wands. I love this image! I got a chuckle out of it because the first thing that popped into my head was this:
“WTF? Look at all I can do! I run circles around you and you are questioning me about what??”

The Queen of wands is the most charismatic figure of the tarot deck….let me list some words of what she exemplifies (and if you will, picture Bruno from Dancing with The Stars, standing, doing dramatic arm sweeps as he lists these words):
She is fiery, passionate, very creative, sensual, dynamic, when she wants something she gets it, successful, alluring and charming.
She is the woman all of us women wish we were and she is the woman men crave to have…baby, she has it all…and when she walks into a room, everyone takes notice and when she wants something, she’ll move heaven and earth to get it done!
Think the lady in red….ohhhh…lala….!!

Now, my intent is to bring the card around to how it can help us with our creativity and here is what came to mind:
As a creative- gosh, wouldn’t it be nice if we embodied the fiery queen of wands? We’d get our ideas done in the snap of a finger, while doing a million others things as well cooking the most scrumptious gourmet meal, making passionate love that sends our lover into such a state of bliss that they go into a 2 day coma all while looking so sexy that Angelina Jolie fears us. Hot damn!
Yea, well, I don’t know about you, but that hasn’t happened to me yet.
As a creative, I would just be happy with being able to get my stuff done!

But, what if we used the Queen of Wands as an energy to draw from? When we need that extra boost of something to help us get our stuck in the mud feet freed and get the idea ball a rollin’, what if we could tap into the power of her?

Ah, yes, that is the beauty of the one thing that we each have: the power of our imaginations…and the ability to pretend! Let me tell you, pretending isn’t just for kids! Its a gift we have and we should utilize it more often!

So, here is what hit me- the Queen of Wands….dressed in red, or with fiery red hair…encompassing the energy of fire….stay with me, but let me back up a little.
During the years that I studied interior decor ( and specifically color) and how our surroundings affected our mental, emotional and spiritual well-being, I used the color red and elements of fire to decorate with to help me light the fire on my creativity and to jump start myself on the path that I was passionate about. I was drawn to red in my clothes, I painted my entire entryway red and I have a lot of red in my living room decor. I needed something to balance out my tendency to always stay stuck in my emotions- I needed the fire/red energy to move me to action.
And, it did indeed work. Now, I don’t need all that red as much, but when I am feeling bogged down, stuck, unsuccessful or can’t get an idea off the ground, I tap into the power of color, the power of red and fire elements.
I even created a character that became a mentor for me. She would show up when I needed a boost and guess what? Yep, she was a fiery red-head who never took no for an answer, who sashayed into my day and dramatically kicked my creative ass into action!
When I needed her, I could conjure her up in my imagination and hear her talking to me, see her actions and in the same powerful way that having an actual person there to spur me on – I had her, when I needed her and the results were the same.

The Queen of Wands housewife isn’t clad in red, but you can see it in her face…you don’t mess with her and she isn’t a shy little wallflower. She may just be a housewife (writer/artist) but baby, she knows how to get it done and get it done with flare!!

The message I got with this card today was that we have all this power we can access. No, its not set aside for only for the very special, or the already wealthy or the genius, we each have it: I’ll say it again…the always there for us, never let us down power of the imagination.
We can create that Queen of Wands attitude when we need a boost and we need to get er dun!

Ah, look! There she is, she just walked into your office/studio…see her standing there? Her red nails tapping on the edge of your desk….what are you two going to set on fire today?