Two of Wands Tarot Card Meaning and Art Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Designation
About the Deck
Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Pivotal and canonical, this deck defined a new pattern that would be followed up to the present. I made a digitally retouched and painted version of this deck, which I call the "Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck". The cards from that deck, as well as a modern English translation of the romantic English descriptions by Arthur Edward Waite (as appear on the Waite Smith Tarot deck) appear in a cross-referenced format in my book, "A Concise Guide to the Tarot: In Vivid Color"
Provenance
Designed by A.E. Waite and Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. England, 1911.
Tags
wands-2, two-of-wands, two, wands
Description
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.Meaning of Two of Wands from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Upright
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.
Reversed
Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Opposition to the beginning of an enterprise.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
A young lady may expect trivial disappointments.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Riches, Fortune, Opulence, Magnificence, Grandeur
Reversed
Surprise, Astonishment, Event, Extraordinary Occurrence.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
if to-morrow morning, about seven o'clock some one inquires of you concerning any thing whatever, give no answer, and you will escape a great vexation.
