Wands · Minor Arcana
A calm, stately personage, with his back turned, looking from a cliff's edge at ships passing over the sea.
A figure stands with three wands on a cliff edge, watching ships return on the far water. The ventures are out; now the patience begins. This is not doing.
Element
Fire
Numerology
3— growth, expression, synthesis, the first fruit
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A calm, stately personage, with his back turned, looking from a cliff's edge at ships passing over the sea. Three staves are planted in the ground, and he leans slightly on one of them.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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