Wands · Minor Arcana
The figure leans upon his staff and has an expectant look, as if awaiting an enemy.
A bandaged figure leans on his wand, eight others standing behind him like a fence. He is tired, but he is not down. You are near the end of something that asked a lot.
Element
Fire
Numerology
9— fulfilment, culmination, wisdom earned, near-end
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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Nine of Wands by life area
The figure leans upon his staff and has an expectant look, as if awaiting an enemy. Behind are eight other staves--erect, in orderly disposition, like a palisade.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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