Wands · Minor Arcana
He is shewn as if upon a journey, armed with a short wand, and although mailed is not on a warlike errand.
The Knight rides a rearing horse across the desert, wand in hand, cloak blazing. He is fire in motion — glorious, reckless, alive. He wins hearts and burns bridges in the same afternoon.
Element
Fire
Numerology
12— action, pursuit, movement, courage in motion
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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.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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