Tarot card meanings · Wands
What does Ace of Wands mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Ace of Wands upright means “family, origin, and in a sense the virility which is behind them; the starting point of enterprises”, and reversed “also a certain clouded joy”.
Upright
Family, origin, and in a sense the virility which is behind them; the starting point of enterprises.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Also a certain clouded joy.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
A hand issuing from a cloud grasps a stout wand or club.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Ace of Wands fall in a reading?
Ace of Wands belongs to the suit of Wands. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
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Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.