Knight 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-12, knight-of-wands, knight, wands
Description
He is shewn as if upon a journey, armed with a short wand, and although mailed is not on a warlike errand. He is passing mounds or pyramids. The motion of the horse is a key to the character of its rider, and suggests the precipitate mood, or things connected therewith.Meaning of Knight of Wands from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Upright
Departure, absence, flight, emigration. A dark young man, friendly. Change of residence.
Reversed
Rupture, division, interruption, discord.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
A dark young man. A friend.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
A bad card; according to some readings, alienation.
Reversed
For a woman, marriage, but probably frustrated.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Departure, Separation, Disunion
Reversed
Rupture, Discord, Quarrel.
