Wands = Independence
Apocalipstick said:
I'm looking at my RWS right now, just to be sure, and I see no wands upright or being carried; the wand on this card are all actively engaged. There is no contemplative look. The man is battling the wands, not looking for anything to approach....Plus, there was that extended paragraph on "engulfment" (say what?) that, combined with the strange description of the card, made me a bit suspicious of the information, to be perfectly honest.
Good call, Apocalipstick. I'm in full agreement with you. Perhaps this person was looking at a 7/wands from some other deck?
In addition, co-dependency is usually the province of the Cups, which relate to addictions and needs, to emotional dependencies, to the desire to connect. Go through the Cups and you'll see from that 2/cups eyes-meet-eyes connection that
Cups is all about co-dependency (healthy or otherwise)--look at the 5/cups remorse over losing others, 6/cups love of old relationships, 8/cups painful decision to leave the tribe, and 10/cups--the highest and happiest of cards, is being part of a family.
It's all about being on the ins-or-outs with others.
Wands are all about passion, creativity and inner fire--hardly things that blend like streams of water coming together. This is a suit about what you'll fight and die for, your philosophy, ethics, morals, ambitions.
Go through the entire suit, you'll see almost no Wands card which emphasizes the need to be part of a group/family/tribe. You'll see the wands making decisions or standing on their own (2/wands, 3/wands, 9/wands, 10/wands) as fighting the group (5/Wands, 7/Wands) or leading the group (6/Wands), but only in the 4/wands is there any indication of being part of the group. And that's for setting down a foundation, for celebration. Wands is, for the most part, a suit of individuality, of fighting for independence, not surrendering it.