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Knight of Wands Tarot Card Meaning
The Knight of Wands tarot card means action, adventure and passion. Bold action, maybe hasty.
Upright
- Action
- adventure
- passion
Reversed
- Recklessness
- impatience
- scattered energy
Yes or no
Yes
The Knight of Wands is one of the 14 cards in the suit of Wands. Wands are the suit of fire: energy, ambition, work you care about and the drive to get things moving.
What the card shows
A knight in armour and a salamander-patterned tunic rides a rearing horse, holding a wand. Pointed hills rise in the desert behind him.
This is the card as drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which is in the public domain.
Upright meaning
The Knight of Wands is read as charging in. It points to adventure, passion and getting on with it, sometimes before thinking it through. It can mean a sudden trip or move.
Knight of Wands reversed
Reversed, it is read as recklessness, impatience, or energy fired in too many directions.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, the Knight of Wands is usually read as a yes. Readers differ on some cards, so treat this as one common reading. You can ask a yes or no question and draw a card for it.
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More Wands cards
Ace of WandsTwo of WandsThree of WandsFour of WandsFive of WandsSix of WandsSeven of WandsEight of WandsNine of WandsTen of WandsPage of WandsQueen of WandsKing of Wands
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