Ace of Wands

Upright meaning

A spark of creative energy: desire, inspiration, or the impulse to begin.

Something to consider

Follow the idea that gives you a little energy. A rough first attempt will tell you more than keeping the possibility safely in your head.

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Historical texts

Waite: the card

A hand issuing from a cloud grasps a stout wand or club.

Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain

Waite: divinatory meaning

Creation, invention, enterprise, the powers which result in these; principle, beginning, source; birth, family, origin, and in a sense the virility which is behind them; the starting point of enterprises; according to another account, money, fortune, inheritance.

Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain

Waite: reversed

Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish; also a certain clouded joy.

Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain

Mathers: meaning

35. Ace of Sceptres.-Birth, Commencement, Beginning, Origin, Source; R. Persecution, Pursuits Voilence, Vexation, Cruelty, Tyranny.

Source: The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1888) · Public domain