Queen of Wands tarot card meaning
Queen of Wands is the card of warmth, confidence and magnetism. Confident, warm, creative leadership. The Queen of Wands reflects self-assurance that lights others up.
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Queen of Wands upright
Confident, warm, creative leadership. The Queen of Wands reflects self-assurance that lights others up.
Drawn upright, Queen of Wands is the card at ease with itself, and warmth, confidence and magnetism sit comfortably side by side. The image of a queen on a throne carved with lions holding a sprouting wand and a sunflower holds the whole of it. Read it as a mirror, and ask what in your own life it is showing back.
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Queen of Wands reversed
Confidence shaken, or warmth turned to jealousy. Return to what makes you shine.
When Queen of Wands falls reversed, many readers take it as the card’s energy turned inward. The warmth it stands for has not gone; it is waiting, or it has been overused. Ask which, and the card has done its work.
What the card shows
The plate shows a queen on a throne carved with lions holding a sprouting wand and a sunflower, a black cat seated at her feet, desert hills behind.
In the tradition this deck follows, the plate’s details are read this way: a throne as settled power and its duties; the lion as courage and appetite; and the staff as will and creative fire. Together they are why Queen of Wands is read for warmth, confidence and magnetism.
Queen of Wands in love
Read for a relationship, Queen of Wands asks how warmth and confidence are shared between two people. It describes a mood rather than an outcome: where magnetism is present, and where it is missing. Wands are the suit of will, work and creative drive, so Queen of Wands reads love through desire, energy and what two people are building.
Queen of Wands in work and money
At work, Queen of Wands reflects warmth, and with money it asks about confidence. Hold it against a real choice in front of you and see where magnetism fits. Wands are the working suit of fire, so Queen of Wands speaks plainly here, about drive, projects and the energy you bring to them.
As a question to carry
What do you do that makes others feel braver?
There is no right answer to it; Queen of Wands asks only that you look at confidence honestly.
The suit of Wands
Queen of Wands belongs to the suit of Wands, the suit of Fire, which tradition gives to will, work and creative drive. As the queen of the suit it is the suit held inwardly, with maturity and care.
Read with its own keys, warmth, confidence and magnetism, it shows fire at one particular point in the suit’s story. See all fourteen cards of Wands.
Draw your own cards
Reading about Queen of Wands is one thing; drawing it in answer to your own question is another. Members draw from the full deck in the Almanac tarot: the card of the day, three cards, or the ten-card Celtic Cross, each card read in its place.
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What does Queen of Wands mean in tarot?
Queen of Wands is read for warmth, confidence and magnetism. Confident, warm, creative leadership. The Queen of Wands reflects self-assurance that lights others up.
What does Queen of Wands mean reversed?
Confidence shaken, or warmth turned to jealousy. Return to what makes you shine. Reversed, it keeps its theme of warmth, seen from the side where it is blocked or overdone.
What does Queen of Wands mean in love?
Read for a relationship, Queen of Wands asks how warmth and confidence are shared between two people. It describes a mood rather than an outcome: where magnetism is present, and where it is missing.
