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Ace of Wands Tarot Card Meaning

Ace of Wands belongs to the suit of Wands — the fire suit of will, creativity and ambition. Upright it speaks of spark, new venture, creative energy; reversed, of delays, blocked creativity. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's archetype and its astrological correspondence.

Ace of Wands tarot card — hand-illustrated Lunara deck
Minor Arcana · WandsFire

Upright meaning

“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”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: spark, new venture, creative energy, potential, inspiration.

Reversed meaning

“Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish also a certain clouded joy”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: delays, blocked creativity, weak spark.

The archetype

In the language of the intuition function (will, vision and desire — the fire of becoming): the seed of the function — pure potential asking to be lived.

Astrology

Root of the powers of Fire — the seed of the fire triplicity (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius).

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