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The Ace of Wands card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A hand emerges from a cloud holding a sprouting wand, leaves falling from it, a castle on a distant hill.

Upright

  • Spark
  • Impulse
  • New venture

The first heat of an idea, before it has been made into anything. It asks what you have felt a pull toward and not yet acted on.

Reversed

  • False start
  • Delay
  • Dropped

Reversed, the spark does not catch — enthusiasm that arrives and leaves, or a beginning postponed until the feeling has gone.

About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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