Tarot card meanings · Wands
What does Knight of Wands mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Knight of Wands upright means “Departure, absence, flight, emigration”, and reversed “Rupture, division, interruption, discord”.
Upright
Departure, absence, flight, emigration.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Rupture, division, interruption, discord.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
He is shewn as if upon a journey, armed with a short wand, and although mailed is not on a warlike errand. He is passing mounds or pyramids. The motion of the horse is a key to the character of its rider, and suggests the precipitate mood, or things connected therewith.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Knight of Wands fall in a reading?
Knight 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.