Tarot card meanings · Wands
What does Six of Wands mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Six of Wands upright means “The card has been so designed that it can cover several significations; on the surface, it is a victor triumphing, but it is also great news, such as might be carried in state by the King's courier; it is expectation crowned with its own desire, the crown of hope, and so forth”, and reversed “also indefinite delay”.
Upright
The card has been so designed that it can cover several significations; on the surface, it is a victor triumphing, but it is also great news, such as might be carried in state by the King's courier; it is expectation crowned with its own desire, the crown of hope, and so forth.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Also indefinite delay.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
A laurelled horseman bears one staff adorned with a laurel crown; footmen with staves are at his side.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Six of Wands fall in a reading?
Six 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.