Tarot card meanings · Wands
What does Two of Wands mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Two of Wands upright means “chagrin, sadness, mortification. The design gives one suggestion; here is a lord overlooking his dominion and alternately contemplating a globe; it looks like the malady, the mortification”, and reversed “Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear”.
Upright
Chagrin, sadness, mortification. The design gives one suggestion; here is a lord overlooking his dominion and alternately contemplating a globe; it looks like the malady, the mortification.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
A tall man looks from a battlemented roof over sea and shore; he holds a globe in his right hand, while a staff in his left rests on the battlement; another is fixed in a ring. The Rose and Cross and Lily should be noticed on the left side.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Two of Wands fall in a reading?
Two 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.