Wands · Minor Arcana
A posse of youths, who are brandishing staves, as if in sport or strife.
Five figures scuffle with wands raised, neither clearly winning nor losing. This is not serious war — it is the sparring ground, the place where ideas and energies test each other. Lively, messy, and sometimes useful.
Element
Fire
Numerology
5— conflict, challenge, disruption, freedom
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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A posse of youths, who are brandishing staves, as if in sport or strife. It is mimic warfare, and hereto correspond the
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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