Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana
Princess of Wands

enthusiasm · boldness · spontaneity · inspiration · transformation
A reflective starting point
What is Princess 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
Dare: a spark of inspiration asks to become a concrete gesture, right now.
At first sight
A brilliant, bold young person, or a beginning full of enthusiasm. It points to stimulating news, new ideas, courageous initiatives and an energy that is hard to contain.
Within you
The fresh and fearless part of yourself that experiments, dares and lets itself be carried by enthusiasm; fire lived in the body without fear.
On the path
Earth of Fire, the final He of Yod, referred to Malkuth: fire incarnating and offering itself. Throne of the Ace of Wands, she rules the celestial quadrant of Cancer, Leo and Virgo, bringing the spark into matter.
The shadow
Ill-dignified, she is superficial, cruel, unstable, prone to whims and sudden anger.
Reversed
In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.
Enthusiasm spent or scattered in a thousand directions; whims, instability, broken promises.
In love, work and spirit
Love. Seduction, spontaneous passion, flirting; plenty of warmth, less constancy.
Work. New ideas, creative projects, a spirit of initiative; a method that gives continuity helps.
Spirit. The incarnated flame: the sacred lived in vital impulse and courage.
Correspondences
Malkuth · Fire · Celestial quadrant of Cancer, Leo, Virgo; throne of the Ace
Crowley's note
The Princess of the Thoth deck stands naked amid flames, with a wand topped by the sun, a tiger at her side and an altar decorated with ram's heads: fire made body, bold and free.
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