Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana
Knight of Wands
impetus · boldness · action · generosity · flame
A reflective starting point
What is Knight of Wands 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
Act now with energy: the moment rewards courage and immediate initiative.
At first sight
An ardent, quick, generous and impulsive person, or a phase of sudden action. It points to departures, courageous undertakings, surges that are hard to hold back.
Within you
The side of the personality that acts before reflecting: enthusiasm, courage, a need for movement. It can be a gift or an excess.
On the path
Fire of Fire, the Yod of Yod, referred to Chokmah: the fastest and most violent force of the element, like lightning. It rules from 21° Scorpio to 20° Sagittarius, joining Martial ardour to Jupiterian aspiration.
The shadow
Ill-dignified, he is cruel, intolerant, brutal and unable to complete what he begins.
Reversed
In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.
An impulse burnt out or held back; undertakings abandoned halfway, aggression or haste.
In love, work and spirit
Love. Overwhelming passion, an impetuous lover; the fire can go out quickly.
Work. Rapid initiatives, relocations, bold projects to be sustained over time.
Spirit. The fire of the Will bursting in; learning to keep the flame alive beyond the first surge.
Correspondences
Chokmah · Fire · 21° Scorpio – 20° Sagittarius
Crowley's note
Crowley shows a warrior in armour on a galloping black steed, carrying a flaming torch: the primordial force of fire in its race.
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