Two of Wands
planning · a wider view · a decision · the world in hand
Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.
The suit of Wands
In a few words
- planning
- a wider view
- a decision
- the world in hand
Standing on the wall with the world in your hand. Plans made; the next move is yours to choose.
Upright
- Everything
- Standing on the wall with the world in your hand. Plans made; the next move is yours to choose.
- Love
- Thinking about where this goes. A decision about commitment or distance.
- Work
- Expansion is possible. Choose the direction, then commit resources.
- Money
- Planning for growth: investment, partnership, a bigger market.
- Myself
- You have outgrown the current fence. Look further, then step.
Between the alternative readings there is no marriage possible; on the one hand, riches, fortune, magnificence; on the other, physical suffering, disease, 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, the sadness of Alexander amidst the grandeur of this world's wealth.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 194
Reversed
- Everything
- Fear of the wider world, or plans that never leave the drawing board.
- Love
- Hesitating between two paths and choosing neither. Decide.
- Work
- Playing safe when the moment asked for reach. Or a partner not pulling their weight.
- Money
- Missed opportunity through over-caution. Or expansion done without a plan.
- Myself
- Restless but afraid to move. Small step, then the next.
Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 194
The card, as Waite described it
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.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 194
The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.