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The The Magician card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A figure stands at a table bearing a cup, a coin, a sword and a wand, one arm raised and one pointing down, with the lemniscate above their head.

Upright

  • Focus
  • Craft
  • Resource

All four suits lie on the table: the traditional reading is that the means are already to hand. It invites you to name what you are actually trying to make, since the tools answer to that and not the other way round.

Reversed

  • Scatter
  • Untested claims
  • Idle tools

Reversed, the classic sense is potential left unapplied, or presented as more than it is. Worth asking which of the things on your own table you have not picked up in months.

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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