Ace of Wands
a spark · new venture · energy · inspiration
Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.
The suit of Wands
In a few words
- a spark
- new venture
- energy
- inspiration
A spark in the hand. New energy, a new idea, the urge to start something and mean it.
Upright
- Everything
- A spark in the hand. New energy, a new idea, the urge to start something and mean it.
- Love
- A new attraction with real heat. Something is lighting up.
- Work
- A new venture or role with your name on it. Start it while the fire is fresh.
- Money
- A new source of income opening. Seed money, a first order, a beginning.
- Myself
- Creative energy returning. Use it today; it grows when used.
Creation, invention, enterprise, the powers which result in these; principle, beginning, source; birth, family, origin, and in a sense the virility which is behind them; the starting point of enterprises; according to another account, money, fortune, inheritance.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 196
Reversed
- Everything
- A start that fizzles, or energy with nowhere to go. Find the outlet before the fire goes out.
- Love
- Passion that flickers and fades. Slow down and see if there is fuel.
- Work
- Delays at the start, a project that will not launch. Fix the first step.
- Money
- A venture that eats money before it makes any. Rethink the scale.
- Myself
- Restless, blocked, uninspired. Change the room, then the task.
Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish; also a certain clouded joy.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 196
The card, as Waite described it
A hand issuing from a cloud grasps a stout wand or club.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 196
The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.