Eight of Wands
Upright meaning
Swift movement, messages, and events gathering pace after a period of waiting.
Something to consider
Things may be moving faster than you can comfortably process. Reply clearly, check the details, and leave a little space before committing to more.
What is on your mind? Begin a reading →Historical texts
Waite: the card
The card represents motion through the immovable—a flight of wands through an open country; but they draw to the term of their course. That which they signify is at hand; it may be even on the threshold.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Waite: divinatory meaning
Activity in undertakings, the path of such activity, swiftness, as that of an express messenger; great haste, great hope, speed towards an end which promises assured felicity; generally, that which is on the move; also the arrows of love.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Waite: reversed
Arrows of jealousy, internal dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels; and domestic disputes for persons who are married.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Mathers: meaning
28. Eight of Sceptres.-Understanding, Observation, Direction; R. Quarrels, Intestine disputes, Discord.
Source: The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1888) · Public domain