Tarot card meanings · Wands
What does King of Wands mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the King of Wands upright means “friendly, countryman, generally married, honest and conscientious. The card always signifies honesty”, and reversed “Good, but severe; austere, yet tolerant”.
Upright
Friendly, countryman, generally married, honest and conscientious. The card always signifies honesty.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Good, but severe; austere, yet tolerant.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
The physical and emotional nature to which this card is attributed is dark, ardent, lithe, animated, impassioned, noble. The King uplifts a flowering wand, and wears, like his three correspondences in the remaining suits, what is called a cap of maintenance beneath his crown.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the King of Wands fall in a reading?
King 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.