Card 35 • wands

King of Wands

Brief Description

The King of Wands embodies strength, leadership, and the regenerative power of the phoenix. The card links nobility, rebirth, strength, and loyalty across cultures, emphasizing resilience and principled authority. When upright, it highlights honesty, passion, leadership, charm, and flexibility, encouraging decisive and charismatic action. Reversed, it warns of tyranny, a lack of harmony, weakness, and volatility, indicating misuse of power or imbalance.

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Character

THE PHOENIX

Origin

EAST ASIA, East Asian Mythology

Description

The King of Wands is a symbol of strength. The legend of the phoenix spans many cultures, but in all of them, the firebird represents nobility, rebirth, strength, and loyalty.

Upright

Honesty, passion, leadership, charm, flexibility

Reverse

Tyranny, a lack of harmony, weakness, volatility

Visual Description

A large, vividly colored bird with teal-green wings, a red neck, and a cream-colored crest fills the card, its wings spread wide as if in flight. A blazing sun and stylized flames arc across a deep, dark background behind the bird. To the left stands a single upright wand-like staff with a few leaves, and peacock-eye feathers fan across the bottom of the image. White decorative corner motifs frame the scene, the script title 'King of Wands' sits in a white cartouche at the base, and the artist signature 'yoshiyoshitani' is visible.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Yoshi Yoshitani

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