Tarot card meanings · Wands
What does Queen of Wands mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Queen of Wands upright means “loving, honourable. If the card beside her signifies a man, she is well disposed towards him; if a woman”, and reversed “Good, economical, obliging, serviceable. Signifies also—but in certain positions and in the neighbourhood of other cards tending in such directions—opposition, jealousy”.
Upright
Loving, honourable. If the card beside her signifies a man, she is well disposed towards him; if a woman.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Good, economical, obliging, serviceable. Signifies also—but in certain positions and in the neighbourhood of other cards tending in such directions—opposition, jealousy.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
The Wands throughout this suit are always in leaf, as it is a suit of life and animation. Emotionally and otherwise, the Queen's personality corresponds to that of the King, but is more magnetic.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Queen of Wands fall in a reading?
Queen 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.