Ace of Wands
The initiator of vision and imagination moves from the safe and conventional world into the unknown towards an imagined goal. It is a beginning of the great journey into the world of vision and imagination. Element of fire, potential, sexual, creative power, force of nature, vitality, start of an activity, fertility, enthusiasm, individuality, originality, enterprise, new concepts towards trust, optimism.
Negative: Bulldozer, rash and impulsive action, dissatisfaction.
King of Wands
This is a personality which initiates new ideas and sells them to others. With his spirit of leadership he has a steady power to manifest his visions, he is outgoing, impulsive and with the element of fire, which symbolizes the creative imagination, he generates change, he is enthusiastic and has self-confidence. He is generous and helpful to those he believes they have talent and ability. With authority and determination he goes for his wisdom and creates life or he destroys.
Negative: Impatience, bad loser, male chauvinist, selfishness, fanaticism.
Queen of Wands
This is an imaginative and magnetic woman with tireless energy to rule her own world in her own right. She is a self-confident and strong-willed individual, devotes her qualities to those few things to which she has given her heart. Also versatile, positive and caring in her actions and choices, she has the desire to become a public figure, with a good feeling for public taste she can be direct and tranquil to share her vision of birth and creation.
Negative: Domination, capriciousness, thirst for revenge.
Knight of Wands
He has the role as a messenger because he is too young to possess a character. Going on a journey to develop the exuberant and adventurous qualities, always in motion, perpetually seeking new challenges, immensely imaginative and creative he is the first to take up a new idea, a new fashion or a new lifestyle. He needs excitement and attention and an occupation just for the time. This trustworthy friend has the energy to devote to organizing projects, he is good at getting a team going and works with ferocity on his inventiveness.
Negative: A pushy and exhausting workaholic.
Page of Wands
The element of fire in it's most delicate and fragile beginnings comes with restlessness and initial fantasies, often silly and childish but only like this it can become a process towards actuality. He is in love with his energy and constantly seeks for new stimulation. But with his far-reaching ambitions he is a lover unready for commitment. Here one is looking for freedom or escape, it can also mean wide travel. It is time for the individual to discover some new stirring of creative potential within oneself.
Negative: A fly-by-night.
Ten of Wands
Now it can happen that the individual clings too tightly to the form he has built and is trapped under the weight of worldly responsibilities. The excitement has vanished and alternates with boredom and depression. This card indicates all dualities and opposites. And the state of oppression, new obstacles, difficult engagements and exhaustion can no longer function; imagination must have fresh stimulation to awaken again with a new idea, a new goal and a new gamble. The cycle may begin again.
Negative: Resisting the inevitable can lead to becoming a victim.
Nine of Wands
Here we have tremendous power of the creative imagination and with this the final struggle before the goal is reached. The creative spirit in human beings cannot be controlled or bent to our will, it is a force that cannot be shaken, it is our strength and stability. Our vitality, radiance and light. The happiness and joy of being honest to oneself, the will to live is at the same time the ability to inspire others. Although it is a state of exhaustion - take this final challenge - you are almost home. With hope and being open to knowledge you can complete this journey. A mystery comes up, detachment of the psyche, understanding is happening.
Negative: Cruelty through extreme egoistically self-detachment.
Eight of Wands
Release of creative energy after the anxieties and struggles of the seven have been overcome. You can see conflict stimulates the imagination, it is an eruption of new visions, vibrant energy like light and electricity. Through active imagination, enthusiasm and swiftness but also through hard work accomplishment will happen, the motion brings insights and confidence constituting matter. Suddenly the born artist comes up, the painter, writer, actor and musician with fruitful creative activity - an accomplishment of the competitive instincts. He is enjoying a position of prominence, fame and esteem.
Negative: Being trapped by your own reputation, violent but not lasting.
Seven of Wands
The imagination itself to create new better forms comes with sudden movement with extraordinary effort. The spirit of thunder stimulates visions, a test of one's faith in oneself. The individual is challenged to improve upon and develop his or her project in the face of an envious and competitive world and needs to learn to value ambition and competitive instinct. Rebellion and sudden freedom needs no compromises, it needs valor, bravery and departure from normal behavior in order to carry out the deed, the outrageously new.
Negative: Struggle with other people's creative ideas, stiff competition.
Six of Wands
Victory, triumph - a clear break through - cause of combination of power, the balance of masculine and feminine qualities. The pleasure of receiving recognition for one's achievements or some piece of creative work. Also satisfaction and confidence in one's abilities and promotion after dedicated work. Action and consciousness has taken form and is a benediction to harmony and beauty. With this ecstasy we reach a sensation of eternity beyond the body. Gate of initiation.
Negative: Using one's reputation to bully and domineer others.
Five of Wands
The battle with the dragon, where the creative vision has collided with earthly reality - the primitive power - is now rebellion for change. Sometimes one is being forced into a new situation or it is a challenge from an unexpected source. This irrational energy brings trouble on the concrete level and asks to use instincts and intuition, the feeling of how the laws of material world operate. Compromises must be made while still retaining the integrity of the original vision. This means strife and this show-fight is a challenge to express power of creative imagination.
Negative: Violence, cruelty, fear of failure, deep apathy, resisting change.
Four of Wands
Friends of strength and creative vision and deep feeling and clever mind brought you here. It is a solid base and benefits are already evident. It is a time of reward for efforts made. This domestic fire is a constant and active energy. One finds security and confidence in creative abilities, friendship and strong ties. So we have open opportunity or closed security. Beauty and harmony is the ideal and everyone wants to have a good taste, but this is narrow-minded and leads to stubbornness or to look for something objective.
Negative: Exclusivity, snobbery.
Three of Wands
Good foundation have been laid, enthusiasm is high, new plans must be put in action, hard work is ahead. Optimism and satisfaction out of actual accomplishment, the establishment of primeval energy has strength and virtue. Here we have cultural meetings, outgoing with inner visions getting the appreciation hoped for in achievement. This fertile and flexible growth from solid groundwork is a cause for celebration.
Negative: Moral, conceit, not willing to finish a potential idea to realize it totally, unfinished projects.
Two of Wands
The fire of imagination - ladder of ambitions and aspirations. Creative potential growth in an enterprise or sexual relationship. Meeting or get-together that may or may not lead to something more important. Creative will in its most exalted form. The adventurer in us moves because we could have more than we have, or be more than we are. And out of restlessness and unformed power one idea leads to another and often the first one is not the final one. Out of the save cave towards the new aim using potentials which are our birthrights. Courage to take new ideas up in both hands to put faith in that invisible creative power which has generated the vision of the new path. Dominion, dynamic, pioneer.
Negative: Tendency to exaggerate.