Wands · Minor Arcana
The Wands throughout this suit are always in leaf, as it is a suit of life and animation.
She sits on a throne of lions with a sunflower in one hand, her wand in the other, the black cat at her feet. She is fire grown warm and steady. You are being shown what it looks like to be fully yourself without apology — bright, grounded, unafraid.
Element
Fire
Numerology
13— mastery of inner realm, nurture, intuition, depth
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
Cards often seen near this one
Queen of Wands by life area
The Wands throughout this suit are always in leaf, as it is a suit of life and animation. Emotionally and otherwise, the Queen's personality corresponds to that of the King, but is more magnetic.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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