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Eight of Wands Tarot Card Meaning

Eight of Wands belongs to the suit of Wands — the fire suit of will, creativity and ambition. Upright it speaks of swift action, movement, news; reversed, of delays, frustration. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's archetype and its astrological correspondence.

Eight of Wands tarot card — hand-illustrated Lunara deck
Minor Arcana · WandsFireMercury in Sagittarius

Upright meaning

“The card appears to show that there is nothing fixed or permanent exacted on the surface of it; all things are varying, conceited, inconstant, slow in growth and, often, lend themselves to the jugglery of the card player, when a sense of inconstancy and volatility is required”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: swift action, movement, news, momentum, alignment.

Reversed meaning

“Despatch, celerity, undue haste, short-coming; also arrows, as instruments of swiftness”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: delays, frustration, slowdown.

The archetype

In the language of the intuition function (will, vision and desire — the fire of becoming): disciplined mastery — energy gathered and directed.

Astrology

Decan: Mercury in Sagittarius. Fire triplicity (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius).

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