From the Vision Quest Tarot, the Eight of Fire (Wands); from the Bird Cards, the Thrush:
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
―Marshall McLuhan
In the Thoth framework, the Eight of Wands is where Fire enters the realm of intellect and logic. It is the sudden penetration of a situation, the apprehension of the nature of things. Such insight sees through misunderstandings and confusion and allows for quick, decisive action. Wood Thrushes migrate more than 2,000 miles each way, between their summer breeding territories in the US and Canada to where they winter in Central America. The birds will fly for hundreds of miles at night, then stop for days or weeks to refuel. In a single night, it will climb to several thousand feet and cover two or even three hundred miles before morning. Like its great bursts of flight, the Thrush tells us to act on rather than mull over our insights.
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