Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana
Three of Wands — Virtue
Virtue

virtue · integrity · first successes · confidence · nobility
A reflective starting point
What is Three of Wands — Virtue asking you to look at?
Meaning changes with the position, the surrounding cards and your question. Take what follows as a language, not a verdict.
Upright
Your actions are consistent with your values: the road is right, so go on with confidence and openness.
At first sight
First concrete results, integrity, self-confidence. It points to an enterprise well begun, supported by clear values and steady energy.
Within you
Strength finds a form and recognises itself: a sense of dignity and inner coherence is born that needs no outside confirmation.
On the path
Fire in Binah, the Mother who gives form, with the Sun exalted in Aries in the second decan: will becomes character. Virtue is force established, the fire that has found its vessel and begins to illuminate.
The shadow
Ill-dignified, it signals pride, arrogance, the presumption of always being in the right.
Reversed
In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.
Doubts about your own integrity, or success that goes unrecognised; or a haughtiness that isolates.
In love, work and spirit
Love. A relationship founded on mutual esteem and a shared project.
Work. First tangible results, recognition, collaborations that start off on the right foot.
Spirit. Virtue as coherence between will, word and action.
Correspondences
Binah · Fire · Sun in Aries
Crowley's note
Three wands ending in lotus flowers that open onto a dawn light: the spring of energy, fire in bloom.
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