King of Wands
The King of Wands represents a mature, compassionate, reserved, and faithful individual whose self-assurance and confidence enable success through responsible leadership and wisdom born of experience. This card describes an unconventional, highly intelligent person who has chosen to do things their own way and achieved established respect, fairness, stability, and compassionate authority. Reversed, it warns of corrupt or unjust displays of power, ineffective or questioned leadership, dishonesty, or failing to live up to responsibilities and the need to take a more active, kinder, and more compassionate role. Magickally, it can be used to boost confidence, establish authority, or gain respect for one’s ideas and experience, while reversed it may be invoked to topple an ineffective or corrupt leader.
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Description
A mature individual who is compassionate, reserved, and faithful; self-assurance and confidence in one's abilities to attain success; an unconventional and highly intelligent person who has chosen to do things their own way and who has achieved success as a result; one who takes responsibilities seriously; an established individual whose ideas are respected; wisdom that comes from experience; a faithfully married person; a thoughtful yet somewhat trying father; honesty; stability; compassionate authority; responsibility and trust in oneself lead to success; an established leader; fairness; good and just leadership.
Reversed
A corrupt or unjust show of authority; having to submit to the misguided ideas of another; a person whom the card represents is in trouble or is in conflict with the querent; one's leadership is questioned; one's experience is not being taken into consideration; failing to live up to one's responsibilities; a need to take a more active role; dishonesty; a need to be more kind and compassionate; disagreement with a highly touted idea; disrespect for a generally exalted authority figure; an ineffective leader.
Magickal Uses
Use in spells to improve confidence, establish authority, or to gain respect for one's ideas and experience. It can also be used to represent the idea of established success that has been built up over time. Reversed, use to topple an ineffective or corrupt leader.
Visual Description
A bearded man wearing a crown of twigs sits on a throne that is partly formed by a gnarled tree. He wears a golden-yellow robe over green leggings and heavy brown boots, and holds a long, leaf-tipped wand in his right hand. Small birds perch on the tree branches around him and autumn leaves carpet the ground. The throne's back is upholstered in red and the figure has a calm, confident expression with one hand resting on the arm of the seat.
Modern Spellcasters tarot
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