After a brief but pleasant respite, it's back to the issues at hand...but you should be feeling renewed and re-inspired, and able to see your efforts in a big-picture context.

 Metal and Wood are the two suits that make this deck one that resonates with a world in which we realize that we are a part - a big part - of the creation (co-creation, really, because we don't do anything alone) of our lives but they are not 'easy' cards, bearing as they do, the task of carrying to us information about will power and personal growth.

Water 3 is a delightful card - whose image will soon be changing when I get back to my work! - but in the context of this reading it is simply overwhelmed by the demands of two much stronger Metal cards and the reversed Wood - which, being an '8' carries the implications of responsibility - doesn't offer much in the way of ease.

It's been a long week. Get hugged, even if you have to solicit one. It'll do you good.