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

On the card

A crowned figure sits on a throne carved with lions and salamanders, wand held upright, a small salamander at his feet.

Upright

  • Vision
  • Leadership
  • Boldness

The mature form of the suit: heat put to a long purpose. Traditionally the card of seeing the whole enterprise and carrying others with you.

Reversed

  • Domineering
  • Impatient
  • Unfocused

Read reversed, the vision overruns the people in it, or the purpose keeps changing and the heat is all that is left.

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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